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...which proves only that exposure has occurred), they cannot determine if a person currently has the live virus, is capable of spreading it or is likely to develop the disease. Nonetheless, the perception persists that the tests can be used for diagnosis. Health officials fear that homosexuals and other high-risk individuals will volunteer to give blood simply to get themselves tested. This would increase the chances that AIDS-contaminated blood could enter the donor supply through a slipup or a faulty test reading...
Homosexuals and other high-risk groups have further concerns about the AIDS tests: that the results may fall into the wrong hands and be used to discriminate in hiring or insurance decisions. Some of those fears were realized in April, when the city of Hollywood, Fla., announced that it would use the AIDS test as a routine part of screening job applicants. "Candidly, we're not looking to hire somebody who may have an adverse impact on our health insurance," said Herbert Chernov, Hollywood's personnel director. "To consciously hire someone who may be dying would be foolish from...
...Haitians should no longer be included among the high-risk groups for AIDS. Researchers now believe that many Haitians who contracted AIDS did so as a result of homosexual activity, use of contaminated intravenous needles or sexual contact with infected prostitutes. Denouncing their misclassification as agents of the disease, Dr. Serge Augustin of the Haitian Coalition on AIDS said, "Three years of stigmatization cannot be erased...
...report, which was also sponsored by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and four other public health schools, comes at a time when the federal government is distributing federal preparedness funds based on risk, with a particular focus on high-risk urban areas, according to the 2006 Homeland Security budget...
...comes on the heels of recent comments by Director of the Department of Homeland Security Michel Chernoff, saying that high-risk urban areas will be prioritized in the distribution of federal bioterror preparedness grants...