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Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer of California has helped set the agenda by introducing five different AIDS bills that call for, among other things, mandatory testing for homeless people seeking Government-funded medical treatment and making it a felony for people with the AIDS virus to donate blood, semen or organs knowingly. Howard Phillips of the Conservative Caucus has begun a direct-mail fund-raising drive on the issue. Other groups have begun lobbying on the Hill and in their communities. H. Edward Rowe, president of the Christian Mandate for America, has established the National AIDS Prevention Institute...
...argued that an employer may discriminate against workers purely on the basis of fear that they could spread a disease, even if that fear is irrational. The court ruling mentions AIDS only in a footnote, in which it declines for now to decide whether carriers of the AIDS virus who do not actually have the disease might also be considered handicapped. But taken as a whole, the court's broad language strongly suggests that people who are suffering from AIDS will be able to use the handicap law as a protection against job discrimination. Assistant Attorney General Charles Cooper conceded...
Mandatory pre-marital testing for the AIDS virus would be an ineffective way to combat the disease and an inefficient use of resources, concluded a study released yesterday by the School of Public Health...
...addition to examining prostitutes and drug addicts, Bavaria will give AIDS tests to applicants for government jobs and foreigners coming from countries outside the European Community who seek residency permits. The new edict, moreover, empowers the Bavarian police to round up for examination anyone suspected of carrying the AIDS virus...
...more positive approach, and one that will do more to stop the spread of the AIDS virus, say critics of testing, is education. "Our problem is not finding out who's infected," says New York Commissioner Joseph, "but educating everyone about the risks. Everyone -- young, old, gay, straight -- has to consider AIDS as a personal message." Pat Christen of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation agrees. "It's not up to me to test everyone to see that you don't get infected. It's up to you to protect yourself...