HIV Reporting Requirements

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the issue of mandatory HIV reporting and the options that the King County Board of Health has with this issue. It discusses whether or not to support mandatory HIV reporting and if so, which system to support. The paper discusses two mains forms of reporting, which are by name or by unique identity (UI), which is a random code.

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Summary
Problem Statement
Stakeholders
Policy Alternatives
Evaluation Criteria
Recommendations

From the Paper:

"Based on the above evaluation, we should proceed with recommendation of an HIV name reporting system. We should also work with Northwest AIDS Foundation to help build trust back into the community. Though the Foundation has framed the debate as taking their side being essential to rebuilding trust with the AIDS community, we feel that the mistrust is overstated, and that trust can be built in many different ways. We should focus significant effort in the coming months to rebuilding whatever trust we can with the most vulnerable communities, be it terms of explaining the system better or strengthening privacy protections."

Sample of Sources Used:

• No author. (1997). Mandatory HIV Reporting Gaining Advocates. Hepatitis and AIDS Research Trust. Retrieved July 8, 2008 from http://www.heart-intl.net/HEART/Legal/Comp/MandatoryHIVreportinggaining.htm
• No author. (no date). Feds Increase Pressure for HIV Reporting. Act Up New York. Retrieved July 8, 2008 from http://www.actupny.org/reports/names-news1.html
• Howell, Craig. (1999). Testimony for Oversight Hearings on the D.C. Department of Health. GLAA. Retrieved July 8, 2008 from http://www.glaa.org/archive/1999/namestestimony0223.shtml
• Jayraman, Gayatri C., Preiksaitis, Jutta K., and Larke, Bryce. (2003). Mandatory Reporting of HIV Infection and Opt-Out Prenatal Screening for HIV Infection: Effect on Testing Rates. Canadian Medical Association Journal. Retrieved July 8, 2008 from http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/168/6/679

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