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Ben's 'Integration of Care' Propoganda for South Africa:

HIV/AIDS affects all members of our community, even those who aren’t infected.

If we are passive about treating a patient only for his or her particular symptoms, we often don’t include HIV as a possible complicating factor.

This short-term way of thinking about our patients requires an excessive number clinical hours and ignores the complex public health implications of the HIV epidemic.

We must be active in thinking about HIV in all patients that arrive at our clinics – even those who are not showing signs and symptoms of HIV/AIDS.

Comprehensive care - by definition - involves active case finding. We must increase the number of patients we are testing each year.

If we can identify those patients who are infected with HIV, but who are still clinically ‘well,’ we can more effectively prevent further impact on the community (sexual transmission, MTCT, OIs, STIs, and TB).

By promoting Wellness of our patients early in the course of illness, we can dramatically lessen the impact that HIV/AIDS is having on an individual and community level.

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