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Carriers are thought to be a severe and current hazard to the well-being of others if they engage frequently in actions that have been revealed to convey the disease, if they designate a casual discount for the diffusion of the disease to others, or if they show they will engage in the future in actions that have been revealed to transmit the disease (Sexually Transmitted Diseases Fact Sheet, 2006).
Anybody with a positive HIV test will be advised as to their responsibility to inform past and current sex and/or needle-sharing associates, together with any spouse who has been the marriage partner of that person any time inside the ten years previous to finding the HIV infection, of HIV condition so they might organize medical care. The HIV-infected individual has the responsibility to inform all future sex and/or needle-sharing associates of their HIV positive condition before engaging in actions which may put them at danger per Indiana law (Should You Get Tested for HIV, n.d.).
Indiana law mandates people who are infected with HIV to be reported by name to local public health officials. It is significant to understand that only public health administrators have access to...
Employers and insurance companies do not. Indiana law contains requirements that make sure the highest amount of confidentiality of name-based HIV knowledge and have harsh penalties for unsuitable revelation of that information (Should You Get Tested for HIV, n.d.).
References
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Fact Sheet. (2006). Retrieved November 14, 2010, from Planned
Parenthood Web site: http://www.ppin.org/documents/stis.pdf
Indianapolis Web site: http://www.brothersunitedindy.org/hivtesting.html
http://www.naswdc.org/ldf/legal_issue/2008/200802.asp?back=yes
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