AIDS Issues: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, Parte2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 |
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acquired immune deficiency AIDS epidemic AIDS virus American anonymous testing appropriate Association behavior change believe bill BRANDT Chairman clinics communicable disease confidentiality contact tracing counseling and testing DANNEMEYER disclosure discrimination Disease Control drug abuse employees Federal going gonorrhea health care workers health information health record hemophilia heterosexual high risk HIV antibody testing HIV infection HIV positive Homosexual hospital identified immune deficiency immune deficiency syndrome informed consent issue Kaposi's Sarcoma Koop legislation male mandatory testing NPWF NPWF nurses O'CONNOR OSBORN patient percent person physician Plaintiff population prevention problem public health officials Public Health Service question recommendations require routine screening Secretary serologic seropositive sexual partners sexually transmitted diseases spread statement status subcommittee syphilis test results testimony testing and counseling testing programs Thank THIER tion transmission venereal disease voluntary testing WALGREN WAXMAN Western Blot
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Página 303 - Establishment will include with such material a published announcement to the effect that "the views of the author do not purport to reflect the position of the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense.
Página 602 - Company, is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware with its principal place of business at Ninth and King Streets, Wilmington, Delaware.
Página 188 - Compulsory blood testing of individuals is not necessary. The procedure could be unmanageable and cost prohibitive. It can be expected that many who test negatively might actually be positive due to recent exposure to the AIDS virus and give a false sense of security to the individual and his/her sexual partners concerning necessary protective behavior.
Página 200 - Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
Página 27 - Retention and Separation Active duty personnel with serologic evidence of HIV infection are referred for a medical evaluation for documentation of fitness for continued service in the same manner as personnel with other progressive illnesses. Evaluation is conducted in accordance with a standardized clinical protocol. Individuals with serologic evidence of HIV infection who show no evidence of clinical illness or other indication of immunologic or neurologic impairment related to HIV infection are...
Página 447 - ... first several weeks after infection, before detectable antibody is present. The proportion of infected persons with a false-negative test attributed to absence of antibody in the early stages of infection is dependent on both the incidence and prevalence of HIV infection in a population (Table 1).
Página 537 - Kolender v. Lawson, 461 US 352, 357, 103 S.Ct. 1855, 1858, 75 L.Ed.2d 903, 909 (1983), as follows: As generally stated, the void-forvagueness doctrine requires that a penal statute define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.
Página 191 - The programs, services, and institutions involved emphasize the prevention of disease and the health needs of the population as a whole. Public health activities change with changing technology and social values, but the goals remain the same: to reduce the amount of disease, premature death, and disease-produced discomfort and disability in the population.
Página 212 - ... (a) the nature of the risk (how the disease is transmitted) , (b) the duration of the risk (how long is the carrier infectious) , (c. the severity of the risk (what is the potential harm to third parties) and (d) the probabilities the disease will be transmitted and will cause varying degrees of harm.
Página 14 - Officers, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, the National Association of County Health Officials, and the United States Conference of Local Health Officers to review the results of the conference and to explore the need for additional recommendations concerning HIV antibody testing.