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I believe disclosure should be optional for an HIV-positive person who has an undetectable viral load or who is practicing safe sex, or both. Because Scientific data and statistic's prove that they are not a significant risk to anybody when it comes to infecting other's with HIV/AIDS.
I am so glad because we are not criminals and I do not want to spread HIV to anyone else(I am a retired healthcare worker got stuck on the job) and we deserve to live & love freely like anyone else!
OK,this sensitive acknolowment of every human beings need to feel love, afecction passion and equality of enjoyment in life's pleasures, (specialy those so heavily promoted) is a start. Now how about we stop throwing in jail people in wheel chairs! And thousands of young virle bodies and minds with a life ahead of them to redeem and contribute something to a society in great urgent need.
I am a ER phsyician I have been HIV + since 2005. I was infected by a needle stick injury while saving a persons life. un fortunatley I suffer tha same stigma as every one else.I still continue to practice medicin and love my job very much. and yes I am a repulican even republicans are not immune from this terrible disease.
I admire Barbara Lee and I'm quite sure she knows the majority of incarcerations of this type is Black African American Males. Lynch us by any means necessary and they now are using an illness as a weapon. How sick is this country?
i hope her bill cant be easily attacked for decriminalizing HIV non-disclosure. If it CAN be, it will die in committee or on the Floor. Worse, the GOP would do very well attacking it in the 2012 elections. HIV+ persons deserve the same presumption of innocence as anyone else, but reports continue to increase that this standard isn't being met in many of our courts. I don't want that injustice to continue because ethically dubious defenses of non-disclosure sidelined the fight for Equal Justice.
Michael
We need to stop focusing on the people that have HIV and start focusing on the root issue at hand that put's the whole world at risk! it's very simple, if you protect yourself, and have the mind set that everyone could be positive, then condom use will go up extremely and in turn HIV testing will be more proactively exercised rather then avoided,and for the first time in the history of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic the world will start to have control over the spread of the infectious disease HIV/AIDS!
January 4, 2012 • Sterling Heights, MI