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Article: Nonanonymous AIDS testing of newborns proposed in New York.
- Article from:
- Special Delivery
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Officials in New York are considering proposals to disclose to mothers the results of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) tests that its health department currently performs anonymously on all newborns. Like 43 other states, New York screens newborns to track the epidemic, but the samples are not identified.
The proposal to give the results to the mothers would in effect mean mandatory testing for all birthing women and their children, something to which only federal prisoners are now subject. The proposal also conflicts with a current New York state law requiring that people give written consent to and receive counseling before and after testing.
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