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HIV Education and the Law: A Critical Review

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Scott Burris
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Education to induce people to stop doing things that put them at risk of acquiring HIV infection has been all but universally acknowledged as the primary means of controlling the epidemic. Yet in the United States, official education efforts have been halfhearted. A substantial share of federal prevention money has been invested in individual testing and counseling, while other forms of prevention education have been largely left to private organizations whose effective use of federal education grants has been hampered by blue-nosed content restrictions. Despite the good intentions of many individual officials, the government has never thrown its full weight behind education; on the contrary, its policies of censorship and shame have sounded sympathetically with the AIDS-phobia of leaders in the national media, who for ten years have resisted so slight a step as accepting paid condom advertising. On several occasions, crucial studies of Americans’ sexual behavior have been cancelled under conservative pressure, and only in the past two years has the government begun assessing the success of such education as has been conducted.

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Law, Medicine and Healthcare , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , Winter 1992 , pp. 377 - 391
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1992

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