On 13.04.20 09:57, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
testing centers/clinics (testing only)
Is this a doctor's office, or is there just a nurse, or just a
laboratory technician who can draw blood for the test? If there is a
doctor, it might be an amenity=doctors. If there is just a laboratory
for testing, that would be a healthcare=laboratory facility.
What if there's HIV testing at a bar or nightclub? (I'm not joking.)
Blood gets taken, but not tested there. “This place does HIV tests
(between these hours)”. How would we tag that?
For the speciality, it's possible to use something like
healthcare:speciality=hiv if that's the only thing that the clinic
treats.
But here in Indonesia and back in the USA most clinics that treat HIV
also offer treatment for other infectious conditions, so a different
specialty like healthcare:speciality=infectious_diseases would usually
be more correct.
I see that in the Phillipines the tag "disease:hiv=yes" has been used:
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/disease%3Ahiv#map
In Indonesia and the USA you can get an HIV test at just about any
healthcare=laboratory and larger clinics and all hospitals. But if you
can only get this done at some specialized places in the Phillipines,
you could consider adding a tag like "hiv_testing=yes/no" for clinics,
doctor's offices, and laboratories.
Similarly, in the USA it's normal to be able to get hiv medications
from standard pharmacies.
I don't know about US or IN & HIV drugs, but at least the US has laws
allowing pharmacies to refuse to fulfill prescriptions for “religious
objection” (
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3amzp/in-these-states-pharmacists-can-refuse-to-fill-your-prescription-for-religious-beliefs
) . Now-a-days that's mostly abortion, but it might be relevant
“This pharmacy will/will not fill perscriptions for $TREATMENT” is
something we could map in OSM. How should we do that?
But if they are only available from a few
pharmacies in your country, you could add a tag like
"hiv_medication=yes/no" to an "amenity=pharmacy" facility.
It looks like "medical_service:antiretroviral_therapy=yes" has been
used in combination. That seems overlong and complex, so it would not
have been my first choice:
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/medical_service%3Aantiretroviral_therapy
`hiv_{treatment,medication}=*` could work, but a more general approach
might be nice...
I think one issue is that healthcare tagging in OSM is a big of a mess.
There's the `healthcare`, `medical_service`, `health_service`,
`health_facility` etc. Some are probably from imports where someone
makes up a new tagging scheme, causing further fragmentation and confusion.
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