Word: manns
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...freedom to choose between anonymous or confidential testing is important especially in terms of discrimination," says Sarah E. Dryden '97, who became aware of the distinction when she took Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights Jonathan M. Mann's course, General Education 103: "AIDS, Health, and Human Rights...
...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...
...infected people were kicked out of their houses and jobs, they were denied the ability to travel and to marry, Mann says...
...Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, which sponsored the conference, also endowed Mann's professorship and a new research building this week...
...purpose of the Foundation is to address the societal determinants of disease," said Howard F. Reitz, Mann's college roommate and the assistant to the United States director of the Foundation. "Albina has taken this great loss and re-channeled it in a very productive...