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  • Title: Illinois health officials move to mandate HIV reporting by name.
    Journal: AIDS Policy Law; 1998 Mar 06; 13(4):1, 13. PubMed ID: 11365152.
    Abstract:
    The Illinois Department of Public Health plans to ask health care providers to report the names of people who test positive for HIV to the State. The new rules, scheduled to be published on February 27, extend name-based surveillance to HIV cases as well as AIDS cases. The AIDS Foundation of Chicago advocates the use of unique identifiers based on the unpublished University of California at San Francisco study that found that the fear of name disclosure had diminished. However, another study conducted in 1996 in California found 86 percent of those questioned would not seek HIV testing if their names were reported. The public health director believes the time has come to treat HIV like other sexually transmitted diseases and use proven public health solutions for preventing the spread of the virus.
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