The Failure of AIDS-Prevention Education

Abstract:
[Archived] The article critiques the current HIV prevention education efforts. The authors argue that the education only approach is inadequate to prevent the further spread of the virus. They advocate for the use of confidential, identity-linked reporting of HIV positive test results to public health authorities, programs to alert sexual partners of those who test HIV positive, elimination of written consent requirements for HIV antibody testing, routine offering of testing to those who come into contact with the public health system in risk areas, and criminal penalties for those who knowingly expose others to the virus.

Author(s): Dannemeyer, William E.; Franc, Michael G.

Publication: Public Interest, Number 96, Summer 1989


Date Published: 1/1/1989

Pages: 13

Location Code: 6033