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California's “AIDS Confidentiality Laws”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2021

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Abstract

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Type
Correspondence
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1987

Footnotes

Editor's Note: Since this letter was written, California passed legislation allowing physicians to disclose the results of positive HIV-antibody tests to “spouses.”

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