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"The error may have occurred because Malone arrived at the clinic in 1996 with lab results from a testing firm showing he had HIV, said Karen Pridmore, spokeswoman for the VA's Northern California Health Care System.
The clinic performed its own HIV test on Malone to confirm the first set of results and it came back negative, but that information was never shared with the patient, Pridmore said.
The mistake was uncovered by the VA's computer system, which tracks HIV patients and conducts a periodic review of cases. "
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The part I find interesting about this whole situation is that last statement... how periodic did they check if they didn't catch this for 8 years.
I have seen friends take that triple cocktail HIV meds... it is not pretty. My own doctor in Seattle was exposed once and had to take start the meds...just in case... until the tests came back negative, twice. He was so sick just from the meds and the thought he may have contracted HIV from a stupid mistake in his office.
Now that this guys has been through all of this for 8 years he is the perfect person to do volunteer work. He can honestly say 'I know what you are going through'
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