From the NYC Health Department web site http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/ah/ahn1.shtml
New York State began implementation of this law on June 1, 2000. ... 1 .What is this new law about, and what will it do? The new law requires doctors and laboratories to tell the Health Department about new cases of HIV infection and HIV illness, along with AIDS cases as they do now. It also requires doctors to discuss with their HIV infected patients those whom they may have exposed to HIV infection through sex or needle sharing. The Health Department or physicians can then notify people who are at risk about where to get counseling, testing, and treatment if they are infected. ... On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:54, Ruben Safir wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:27 -0500, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > Most if not all health departments require that contacts be notified. They > just don't allow the contact to be told who had the positive HIV test > without permission. > > I don't think anyone who has a positive HIV test is a priori a murderer. SOcial workers were prevented from telling partners that they sex partners were HIV positive. That was/is and continues to be MURDER. I've seen enough of it and I'm fed up with the excuses. Public health information in the specific and the general is a priority 1 public safety need. Everything else to my ears is utter nonsense and in fact dangerous. The health department, as far as I'm concerned, can ask for any information it wants. Unless your showing me that this information is being miss used, or used legally, I'm ABSOLUTELY not interested. In fact, they need to flush HIPPA which is just stupid. Ruben ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
