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The HIV Epidemic
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has posed two powerful, and conflicting, legal and ethical obligations.
The first obligation is to respect the privacy of persons with HIV infection. The threat of stigma and discrimination has had a profound impact on the extent to which persons living with HIV/AIDS have demanded ironclad legal ....
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....ars later? The California court answered both questions affirmatively.
In most US jurisdictions, there is little doubt that physicians have a legal duty to disclose a positive HIV test result to a patient. All patients have the right to be informed of relevant information about their own bodies and health. It also is likely that many courts would find a duty to warn known sexual and needle-sharingpartners. Nearly two decades ago, the California Supreme Court, in the landmark case of Tarasoff v .... |
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