City offers 'unique identifier' plan

City offers 'unique identifier' plan

The Washington Blade - March 9, 2001
Lou Chibbaro Jr.

The D.C. Department of Health on Jan. 19 issued its long-awaited plan for keeping track of city residents who test positive for HIV through a numerical coding, or "unique identifier," system.

Ronald Lewis, the deputy health director and head of the city's Administration for HIV/AIDS, is credited with completing the unique identifier plan 19 months after Mayor Anthony Williams overruled Lewis's controversial recommendation that the city adopt a names reporting system rather than the unique identifier plan favored by many Gay and AIDS activists and nearly all members of the D.C. Council.
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