AEGiS-APPJ: Reporting of AIDS and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: A Worldwide Review of Legislative and Regulatory Patterns and Issues

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Reporting of AIDS and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: A Worldwide Review of Legislative and Regulatory Patterns and Issues

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 5, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 32-36
S.S. Fluss and Dineke Zeegers

The standard American Public Health Association (APHA) book on the subject, widely used in the United States as well as in other countries, notes that "the first step in the control of a communicable disease is its rapid identification, followed by notification to the local health authority that the disease exists within the particular jurisdiction." It goes on to point out that "administrative practices on the diseases to be reported and how they should be reported may vary greatly from one region to another because of different conditions and different disease frequencies. As we shall see, there are indeed differences between countries, and even within countries in some cases, in approaches to and systems of reporting HIV/AIDS, although the reasons for these differences are perhaps more complex than the above quotation might suggest.
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