Routine third party disclosure of HIV results to identifiable sexual partners in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Date
2008
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Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
Abstract
The challenges of dealing with disclosure of HIV status cause frustration
to health care providers and counselors. This frustration follows from the already
known high risk to the third party on one hand and our ethical obligation to ‘‘respect
persons’’ in terms of privacy and confidentiality on the other side. Given the
stubbornly low rates of voluntary disclosure (partner notification) among couples,
however, it is quite tempting to suggest a paradigm of routine third party disclosure
to identifiable sexual partners by health care providers. This might be the lesser of
the two evils and might give better public health outcomes in the fight against HIV/
AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Third-party disclosure, HIV status, Identifiable sexual partners, Confidentiality, Sub-Saharan Africa
Citation
Masiye, F., & Ssekubugu, R. (2008). Routine third party disclosure of HIV results to identifiable sexual partners in sub-Saharan Africa. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 29(5), 341-348. DOI 10.1007/s11017-008-9085-x