MSF has just posted a new publication: "TB / HIV The Failure to Act". It is attached. Or you can download it from http://www.msf.org/source/annual/tbday/2007/tb-hiv-failure-to-act.pdf

In it we learn that: "MSF is the largest provider of HIV/AIDS care in Myanmar. In the city of Yangon, MSF staff have started 2,500 HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral treatment. The Myanmar project has also provided medical care to more than 6,000 people with TB." This is good.

But the [him] moderator has a serious criticism of the publication. One of the MSF recommendations calls for routine testing for all TB patients. Not a routine offer of testing. Routine testing. The word 'consent' does not appear in the MSF document at all. He wonders whether MSF forgot consent or MSF thinks consent is no longer necessary for HIV testing of TB patients.