In his blog
HIV and ID Observations, Paul Sax, MD, responds to one perspective he recently heard on the pending Massachusetts HIV legislation.
Legislation pending in Massachusetts would remove the requirement for written consent for HIV testing and expand HIV-related privacy protections. Some say we still need restrictive testing laws to protect patients, based on how part of the medical community responded to AIDS in the 1980s. In his blog HIV and ID Observations, Paul Sax, MD, argues that things are much different today.