HIV…interview…Negative answer January 9, 2009
Posted by dannyintheworld in Uncategorized.Tags: HIV, interview, medical, pitesti, Romania, WTF
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Here is a tabu subject for Romanians. I was always wandering why Romanians are not taking regular tests or HIV tests on regular bases. This week i discovered why…
I went to take my periodic HIV test in a Romanian private clinic, i entered the place and…i felt as in an interview. I was asked about 6-7 times what are my reasons to take the test, how many unprotected contacts i had, how many times i used needles in the last year and so on…
After the first 5 minutes of questions like that they told me that they need to take me into their database before the test (WTF for????) so they did, they asked for Personal number, address, number and names of brothers/sisters, their ages, my parents names and ages (date of birth) and so on…
Finally they took the blood and run the test…but not before asking me where i have traveled in the last year and if any of the countries had a high HIV risk. After that while waiting all the ladies started talking about HIV cases in between themselves…WTF where is the professional side of all this circus??? did i really had to hear about the guy that suicide because of HIV or about the wife that killed her husband ????
The next day i went to take my results, after they saw them i asked what will happen with my personal details…and they told me that they will keep them in a database for their own use…
Now i can understand why Romanians are not willing to take the test…is much to Communist…somehow i am glad, this is the first interview i am passing in Romania 
Romanian hospitals.
you know, it’s not just that it’s a tabu subject, but the way you feel when you’re frowned upon. i had the same problem, until I just took the test once in 6 months as I was donating blood. maybe it’s like that just in Cluj-Napoca, but the state (clinic) personnel is just thanking you for your donation, they don’t ask you all the Qs and they don’t start conversations with you still in the room. And this way, I still can donate, I still get my test done and I feel ok. I know that if there’s a problem with your results, you will discuss it privately with a doctor. Not all hospitals are like the one you described. probably I was just lucky