Ethics Committees Urged to Promote Benefits of Testing

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Ethics Committees Urged to Promote Benefits of Testing

AIDS Alert (11/94) Vol. 9, No. 11, P. 158

Dr. Martin W. Sklaire, chairman of the provisional committee on pediatric AIDS of the American Academy of Pediatrics, has challenged hospital ethics committees to take a leading role in helping to educate pregnant women about the benefits of HIV testing. "Ethics committees could have an enormous impact on AIDS educational efforts," he says. Policy-makers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are currently working to develop guidelines for pregnant women with AIDS that emphasize counseling and education as well as the importance of informed consent. "Confidentiality will be a critical component of screening programs provided by health care providers," adds Dr. Martha Rogers, chief of the HIV epidemiology branch of the division of HIV/AIDS at the CDC. Sklaire says that in anticipation of the CDC guidelines, hospital ethics committees should start planning educational efforts--such as partnerships among the ethics committees, school-based health clinics, and urban crisis centers.

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