Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Etzioni discussed several instances in which privacy rights are an issue-including the testing of newborns for HIV, the disclosure of names of local child molesters and the release of medical records...
Hildebran, who helps run a hotline that deals with sexual orientation, HIV and the law, said small slurs and insults can be indicators of more violent acts such as the Shepard and Gaither incidents...
...government's failure to promptly implement the testing of blood at a time when it was already suspected to be a medium of transmission for the AIDS virus. Although the government was warned in March 1985 that almost all of the National Center for Blood Transfusion's stock was HIV-tainted, no action was taken for several months. The delay was responsible for the infection of some 4,400 individuals, about 40 percent of whom have since died of AIDS...
Participants at the conference discussed the high rate of HIV infection among black Americans and debated the effectiveness of needle exchange programs...
...think until people know other people whoare HIV positive or who have relatives dying ofAIDS, people don't consider it a pressing issue intheir lives," she said. "It's a sad fact...