Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says that the current nature of HIV services at UHS -- in which confidential testing is free and anonymous testing requires a fee -- creates the perception that UHS is essentially charging for anonymity...
Still, Simons is adamant in his position for free testing. "In my opinion, we should make it as easy as possible for any student to get an HIV test," he says...
...some, the advantages of anonymous HIV testing have proven invaluable in the effort to combat HIV- and AIDS-related discrimination on a broader scale...
...when general HIV testing was first licensed in the United States, AIDS was largely considered a homosexual disease. Although the advent of testing services represented a significant step for those at risk, it also immediately raised issues of confidentiality, according to Mann, who worked at the World Health Organization in the mid-1980s...
...HIV-infected people were kicked out of their houses and jobs, they were denied the ability to travel and to marry, Mann says...