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...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...
From the perspective of the World Health Organization, "discrimination is undermining public health," Mann says...
...effort to fight discrimination and encourage those at risk to be tested, Oregon became the first state to move its testing services from confidential to anonymous, Mann says...
...thing we've learned is that most of it is not AIDS discrimination," Mann says. "People are using AIDS as an excuse toward underlying discrimination. For many people, the big force is not AIDS, it's homo-sexuality...