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Screening for Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Rolf D. Rosenbrock
Affiliation:
Berlin Science Center for Social Research (WZB)

Abstract

Screening for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies as a means of preventing both the progress and spread of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is problematic in terms of efficacy, effectiveness, and ethics. The few desired effects are mostly offset by greater and more certain undesirable effects on individuals and society.

Type
Special Section: Assessment Of Preventive Technologies
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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