Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1998. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1998. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia, Inc.; Thursday July 30 5:25 PM EDT
A lawsuit filed in federal court in Chicago by the American Civil Liberties Union named as defendants the black child's day care center, a medical clinic and the doctor who performed the HIV test on the 9-year-old black child.
The negative test results were then shared with the unidentified white child's mother without the consent of the black child's family, according to the suit. The incident occurred in 1996.
The white mother allegedly threatened a lawsuit against the day care center, which felt compelled to ask for the test for fear a suit would close its program for low-income children.
"This would not have happened if this was a white kid," said ACLU attorney Roger Leishman, who filed the suit in federal court seeking undetermined damages. "I think this is an extraordinary example of racism against people with HIV and AIDS," he said.
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