Name reporting of persons with infectious disease can benefit the individual person. It could enable health officials to find and counsel people who test positive, but do not return for their results or who are tested in venues that do not provide extensive educational opportunities. Such contacts could also lead to medical referrals and earlier viral loads and CD4 testing, resulting in more timely treatment and reductions in viral loads that could not only improve the individual health but, at least, theoretically, also improve the public health by reducing the infectiousness of individuals. Furthermore, there have been recent studies on new therapies that can keep HIV-positive people healthy for years. These therapies are a combination of drugs that effectively reduce the amount of HIV in the blood. People have the greatest chances of success with these therapies if they begin treatment early on, and they can't be treated if they don't know that they are infected and th!
             eir names are not found somewhere so that they could be at least consulted. To insure that the information recorded about an individual is not used to discriminate them a law could be passed. Something like this already exists, were you cannot discriminate a person if they are gay, black, white, etc., therefore, you have to hire the person if they are fully qualified. Name reporting of persons with infectious diseases can benefit the public health also. The way is that when combined with sufficient resources and effective vaccines or cures, reporting infected individuals by name can be used to help control endemic diseases.
             In conclusion, name reporting of persons with infectious diseases has the potential to benefit both individual and public health, for all the above reasons stated. Keep in mind that thousand of names have already been revealed, however unfortunately on the AIDS quilt because by then it is too late to save that life.
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