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<DIV><FONT size=4>Medical authorities are not quite in agreement with
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<A title=ophite@gmail.com href="mailto:ophite@gmail.com">Andreas Schou</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 12, 2005 3:56
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Kanay and the
Law</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Virtually every HIV infection not caused by infected clotting
factor was caused by an act that would be criminal under this law. Are we, as
a state, quite certain that we want to create a number of felons potentially
equal to the number of new HIV cases every year? <BR><BR>Kanay's actions would
not have been criminal if Kanay had never gotten an HIV test. Follow the logic
through, and the only conclusion you can come to is that, under the law, Kanay
would be substantially better off if he had never gotten an HIV test. This is
not the case for his victims. The transmissibility of HIV is directly
correlated with the viral load in bodily fluids: Kanay would have had a
substantially higher risk of transmitting HIV if he had never been tested and
had not received multi-drug therapy for HIV. Kanay would also have still been
picking women up in local bars. The consequence of this law is that it
discourages irresponsible and negligent behavior by promoting behavior that is
orders of magnitude more irresponsible and negligent. <BR><BR>If this were
1989 and HIV were a death sentence, or if this were 1982 and the spread of HIV
could be substantially reduced by dramatically increasing penalties, then
there would be an argument that this law was necessary. But this is 2005, and
HIV is no longer a death sentence. Most cases of HIV contracted today will
never progress to full-blown AIDS. Most HIV+ individuals infected today will
live long lives and die of something other than HIV. <BR><BR>This is not to
say that what Kanay did was ethical. But, unfortunately, 'unethical' and
'illegal' cannot always be perfectly congruent.<BR><BR>-- ACS<BR>
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