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Public Health and Civil Liberties in Conflict?

Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, LLD

JAMA. 2006;296:2023-2025.

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On September 22, 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a sweeping revision of its guidelines for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening in health care settings¹ that reversed a decade-old approach to AIDS policy. Previous guidelines recommended HIV testing only for persons at high risk or in health care settings with high HIV prevalence,² which reflected a civil liberties approach that constrained testing with costly, cumbersome procedures for pretest counseling and written informed consent. Health care professionals often did not perform HIV screening due to financial or administrative burdens or because conducting risk assessments or discovering HIV prevalence in their facilities was impractical.

The new guidelines, which apply to all health care institutions in the public and private sectors (eg, emergency departments, inpatient services, public health and community clinics, primary care, and correctional health care), represent a radical departure. The CDC now . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Social and Historical Context: HIV Testing From the 1980s to Today

Author Affiliations: Center for Law and the Public's Health, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

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