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Another study by Chinese and German researchers found that the 2006 test also helped cut airborne particles. "There was a significant decrease," says Jost Heintzenberg, director of the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research. Under this year's plan, with added restrictions to keep trucks and cars that don't meet inspection out of the city, Heintzenberg says, "I make an educated guess on a 50% visibility improvement that they can manage...
...Testing for HIV "is more than just drawing the blood or taking the swab," says Carmen Davila, community education director at CitiWide Harm Reduction, a needle-exchange facility in the Bronx where about 80% of patients are HIV-positive. "You also need to rub someone's back and talk to them. When I do testing, it's like a therapy session." Davila and others at CitiWide worry the initiative's approach ignores important parts of the treatment process - including pre- and post-test counseling - and reduces the delicate, often traumatic process of coping with a diagnosis to the emotional equivalent...
...works, the Bronx initiative could serve as a blueprint for how the nation's health care community tackles HIV/AIDS - and save thousands of lives in the process. The Centers for Disease Control advocated routine widespread testing in 2003 and again in 2006, but so far it hasn't paid dividends. Washington, D.C., attempted to test 450,000 residents in 2006, but the initiative was a flop, reportedly meeting only about 10% of that target. New York's prospects for success may be brighter, partly because New York's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Frieden, is one of the most effective...
...fighting HIV, the new plan, which encourages but does not require testing, changes some of the accepted rules. New York state law requires that patients be counseled about HIV before they give consent for a test, a process that typically takes about 20 minutes. The Bronx plan will whittle that process down to five minutes or less in many emergency rooms; studies have shown reducing consent barriers can dramatically increase testing rates. "We can remove a hurdle that doesn't really serve a purpose anymore," says Dr. Donna Futterman, an AIDS specialist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx...
...Beasley says, the committee "retains the real option of inscribing Lascaux on the List of World Heritage in Danger 2009." The hope is that conditions of the caves' 17,000-year-old art will improve to the point where the seriousness of that threat won't come to the test...