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United Press International - Monday, December 21, 1998
Assemblywoman Carole Migden, D-San Francisco, announced its reintroduction today-- two weeks before Wilson is succeeded by Democrat Gray Davis.
Migden says new guidelines from the Center for Disease Control urge states to go beyond the reporting of AIDS cases to track people infected with HIV, the virus may precede it.
Her bill would authorize an identification system that uses a cryptic code to report HIV cases to local health departments while keeping patients' names confidential.
Migden says federal officials are offering to help states develop HIV reporting systems that conceal the names of patients by assigning them numbers. She says the idea is to improve data collection while protecting patients' privacy.
Several other states have used to the coded reporting system or are developing it.
Others have adopted name-based systems and rejected coded identifiers on grounds that they make it too difficult to find the partners of HIV patients and save lives.
Present law requires the AIDS disease to be reported to local health departments by name -- but not the virus that may precede it.
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