Word: gostin
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...virus through methods ranging from sexual contact to the splattering of blood. In Louisiana the malicious transmission of the AIDS virus carries a maximum punishment of $5,000 and 10 years in prison -- last month, for the first time, a man was prosecuted and convicted under the law. Lawrence Gostin, head of the U.S. AIDS Litigation Project, recommends education and counseling for HIV-infected people to convince them that they have responsibility to tell others about their condition: "I don't believe for a minute that harsh criminal punishment is making people change their behavior...
...Lawrence Gostin, executive director of the American Society for Law and Medicine, said AIDS victims need social protection as well as medical attention...
...status, and to discriminate against this status is just as vexatious as any other kind of discrimination," Gostin said...