HIV education and the law: a critical review
Article Abstract:
HIV education has been hampered by social ambivalence toward the disease. Condom distribution, educational materials without content restrictions, research on sexual behavior, needle exchanges, condom ads and more explicit public service announcements are among the needed educational efforts which have faced obstacles due to social attitudes. Courts have not supported a legal obligation for the government to provide HIV education. Other issues include government requirements for private parties to provide education and government censorship of education.
Publication Name: Law, Medicine & Health Care
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0277-8459
Year: 1992
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Driving the epidemic underground? A new look at law and the social risk of HIV testing
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The federal government has substantially invested in and relied upon law to overcome resistance regarding human immunodeficiency virus or HIV testing. Despite such substantial reliance on the law, very little is known today about the perceptions of the social risk of testing of people at risk of HIV, or about the manner in which the law might be used to reduce those fears. The federal government's social policy reflected in such laws is analyzed, as well as HIV testing and issue of social risk.
Publication Name: AIDS & Public Policy Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0887-3852
Year: 1997
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The law and the public's health: a study of infectious disease law in the United States
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A review of public health law in relation to infectious disease reveals a need for revision. Public health law must more effectively serve its prime objective of enabling public health agencies to promote social conditions conducive to good health. Reform must draw on the three conceptual models of disease and health: the microbial model, the behavioral model, and the ecological model. Above all, agencies need a forthright mission statement to clarify disease control powers.
Publication Name: Columbia Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0010-1958
Year: 1999
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