Sale of the AIDS test is illegal, alerts Anvisa
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A laboratory of the Holy Spirit sold since last year for all of Brazil a test kit for HIV, the virus causing AIDS to be done at home and dispatched by the Post, a service considered illegal and that brings risk to public health, according the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa). According to the government, 630 thousand people living with HIV in Brazil, 255 thousand is the estimate of people with HIV who never took the test.
According to André Rezende, a specialist in regulatory agency, the company is disregarding the law by sending biological material by mail (samples of blood) and not providing reliable data because of inadequate transport of samples. Moreover, says Rezende, such examination requires the presence of the user of the health service, to check the identity. "It is the first online lab that we know. A service is not so sure that the results are real, "he said.
The agency has already notified the Health Surveillance of the Holy Spirit to take steps that may be warning, ban or fines between $ 2 thousand and R $ 1.5 million. The regulatory agency has warned of examinations by the NGO Group for irregular Vidda, defense of HIV-positive patients in São Paulo. According to John Scheffer, director of the NGO, another problem found in the private network is the availability of results for patients without any kind of advice. The information is the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo ".
Source: State Agency
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