AEGiS-APPJ: The Coercive Element in Legislation for the Control of AIDS and HIV Infection: Some Recent Developments

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The Coercive Element in Legislation for the Control of AIDS and HIV Infection: Some Recent Developments

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 2, no. 3 (Summer-Fall 1987): 11-20
S.S. Fluss and D.K. Latto

In this article, we propose to examine, in a descriptive rather than analytical manner, the extent to which coercive approaches are now being manifested in AIDS legislation. For a number of reasons, it was decided that the U.S. situation should be excluded, largely because of the work being done by others, notably the Intergovernmental Health Policy Project at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Some interesting reflections on the particular issues of coercion in respect to homosexuals in the U.S. context have recently been published by Mohr. As far as possible, our article concentrates on original sources--in other words, the official gazettes of the respective countries or jurisdictions, although on occasion we have cited newspaper reports.
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