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AIDS Policy Law. 1999 Jan 22;14(1):13. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE AIDS/20700049
Abstract: Eighteen months after his alleged sexual offenses against a child, David Isom was ordered by a Brevard County trial judge to be tested for HIV. The testing was requested by the guardians of the victim. On appeal, Isom argued that testing now would provide useless information since the law mandated testing to allow the victims to receive early treatment. Isom also suggested that the results from the girl being tested would be more useful to her than his test. The appeals panel disagreed with the idea that the results would be useless and rejected as speculative Isom's concerns that his test results might be released in prison, thus subjecting him to possible discrimination.
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