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United Press International - July 13, 1986
The regulation would require doctors and hospitals to report cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome to the state within 12 hours, the Health Department spokesman, Leigh Cook, said.
Information required would also include a patient's age, sex and when victims became sick.
The Public Health Council will hear testimony on the regulations at a hearing Monday, the spokesman said.
Information gathered by the department would be kept confidential and would not be available to employers or school districts, she said. But the department would try to track the sexual contacts or other people who could have infected or been infected by an AIDS patient.
The specific information sought by the department would help researchers to gather information about who has the disease and how it is transmitted, the Health Department said.
Civil liberties and homosexual-rights groups have opposed similar regulations because of fear that information could be used to deny jobs, housing or insurance to those suffering from the disease.
But the executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Jeffrey Fogel, said he supported making AIDS reportable as long as results were confidential and used only for research.
"The Department of Health has a good record," Mr. Fogel said. "I wish the rest of the administration was as good." </txt> <sub> ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS); PRIVACY, RIGHT OF; DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION </sub> <org> HEALTH DEPARTMENT (NJ) </org> <geo> ;NEW JERSEY </geo> <nexsqn> 210044860714 </nexsqn> <edt> Late City Final Edition </edt> <sec> B </sec> <pg> 2 </pg> <sortpg> 0002 </sortpg> <cl> 5 </cl> <dsk> Metropolitan Desk </dsk> <nexpd> 19860714080000 </nexpd> <pdate> 19860714 </pdate> <day> Monday </day> <pdm> 7 </pdm> <pdd> 14 </pdd> <pdy> 1986 </pdy> <sqn> 004486 </sqn>
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