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ACLU Says New CDC HIV Testing Recommendations Raise Health and Civil Liberties Concerns (09/21/2006)
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union is concerned that the CDC’s new HIV testing recommendations may harm the health of those newly diagnosed with HIV and compromise the civil rights of anyone seeking medical treatment.

ACLU Tells San Francisco Department of Public Health Not to Report Names of People Deceived About HIV Confidentiality (06/02/2006)
SAN FRANCISCO – The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the San Francisco Department of Public Health demanding that the San Francisco City Clinic stop misleading people being tested for HIV about names reporting.

HIV Activists Tell New York Department of Health to Stop Gutting Informed Consent Laws (05/15/2006)
NEW YORK – HIV activists demanded today that the New York State Department of Health stop illegally collecting medical information on people with HIV and stop its illegal end run around New York law requiring informed consent for HIV testing.

ACLU Says CDC Guidelines on HIV Surveillance Could Lead to Better Privacy Protections (12/10/1999)
WASHINGTON -- New guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control on HIV surveillance could pave the way for better privacy protections for people with HIV, the American Civil Liberties Union said today.

ACLU Expresses Significant Doubts About New Draft of Medical Privacy Bill (06/15/1999)
After weeks of negotiating the differences between three medical records privacy bills introduced this year, Senator James Jeffords, the Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, unveiled a new draft of his legislation before his committee today. 

Settlement Ends Discrimination Case of Nine-Year-Old Forced to Take HIV Test (04/22/1999)
CAROL STREAM, IL -- A nine-year-old black child who was allegedly coerced into taking an HIV test after sharing a snorkel in a public pool with a white youth settled a discrimination case against a suburban day care center, the Chicago Sun-Times reported today.

ACLU Tells CDC New Guidelines for HIV Tracking Violate Privacy,  Ignore Public Health Research (01/12/1999)
The CDC draft guidelines recommend that states institute case reporting of people who test positive for HIV. The guidelines clearly state a preference for names reporting over the use of unique identifiers, a move that has come under heavy attack from the ACLU and other groups, who charge that the guidelines ignore strong scientific evidence.