ASAN (KXAN)-The policy of canceling the subscription to the HIV examination, which was proposed by Central Health, the Travis County Hospital area, helped break the barriers that stem from HIV test-and the numbers were amazing.
Megan Sermak, Director of the Central Health Centured, told Tom Miller from KXAN that the campaign helps their patients “slip by cracks” because some diseases and conditions have not been properly discovered until it was too late.
In 2018, the Texas Ministry of Texas (DSHS) has set a “hot point” for new HIV diagnostics, Sermak said. Changing policy in HIV offers, however, create a difference to save lives.
Again a day, the positive HIV diagnosis felt that it was the end of the world- especially during the 1995 AIDS epidemic. However, a press release from Central Health It was mentioned in 2025, this fear has been changed due to access to access and life -saving options available to patients.
“Today, anyone with HIV can properly manage the condition with appropriate care,” the statement said.
Although the fear of diagnosing HIV has been somewhat steeped, life -threatening gaps still exist and a large part of the problem is due to the examination.
Central Health apply to policy changes to examine HIV efforts to increase awareness and increase the test. The health center created a policy that included HIV test as part of any blood shows; Immun -HIV examination is imposed on blood tests unless patients penetrate.
The statement said that for more than 30 years, the David Powell Health Center in the community has provided HIV treatment and its prevention to the center of Texas, including the Travis Province.
Cermak participated with KXAN, central health affects the policy of HIV examination and how it collected the stigma around it.
Cermak said: “HIV examination policy is exactly what it looks, so we make HIV examination a routine part of health care. So in your annual test when you get blood withdrawal and you are examined for diabetes or cholesterol, you are also examined for HIV.”
Cermak added that this helps patients to reduce the stigma about HIV inspection because it becomes a routine part of health care.
“Patients and service providers have responded positively because it helps reduce the stigma, and makes what could have been an uncomfortable conversation a natural part of health care,” said Sermak.
Cermak Kxan told this the result of this policy change to implement HIV offers as part of routine exams were “amazing”.
Sermak said: “The rates of HIV examination for patients with the medical access program (MAP) in Travis Province were 64 percent higher than the average state and the greatest 84 percent of the national average,” said Sermak.