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California's “AIDS Confidentiality Laws”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2021

Sylvain Fribourg
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Law, Medicine and Healthcare , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , Fall 1987 , pp. 160 - 161
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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