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Legal barriers to implementing recommendations for universal, routine prenatal HIV testing

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, ISSN: 1073-1105, Vol: 32, Issue: 1, Page: 137-147
2004
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A 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel recommended that universal HIV testing become a routine component of prenatal care to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission by enabling HIV-infected women to take advantage of antiretroviral prophylaxis. In this paper, we first evaluate the IOM's recommendations and the reasons behind them. We make specific recommendations regarding information that must be disclosed prior to prenatal HIV testing and legal protections that should be adopted. Our recommendations will help to ensure that wider prenatal HIV testing can be carried out without leaving women too vulnerable to psychosocial harms.

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