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AIDS Screening: A Response to Gary Bauer

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 2, no. 4 (Fall-Winter 1987): 5-7.
John C. Fletcher

Gary Bauer's discussion of public policy choices to confront and contain the spread of AIDS leaves this reader with three major questions: (1) More "routine" or "symptomatic" testing is indeed indicated, but where are the specific details, or even a good outline, of a coherent, ethically supportable plan for such testing? (2) Why is there not one word about mass education about AIDS, how it is transmitted, and how it can be prevented? (3) Why does Bauer unfailingly confuse "AIDS testing" with the real results of screening, i.e., the presence of antibodies that indicate exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)? These questions reflect the major weaknesses in Bauer's paper and in the administration's public policy concerning AIDS.
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