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Originally Posted by shimmy2
if you test for free @ the local health dept (in florida at least) you have to sign a waiver that says they will alert the health department on a positive. when i renewed my life insurance and they came for the physical part their waiver said the same thing, they will make any positive test results public
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I thought they only made statistics public? In other words patient confidentiality is still in play.
I was under the impression that they report a "positive" to the CDC...but not necessarily the patients identity.
That's the kind of thing that has a huge (and undeserved) stigma in our society. There's so much misunderstanding of HIV and fear, that I think if a person were publicly identified as having HIV he or she would have problems getting employment anywhere.