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counseling if they test positive, which could help
stop the disease's spread.
But authors of the minority report argue that
reporting the names of those carrying the AIDS
virus will allow health officials to contact the car
rier's partners who also may be infected.
The report calls for $48.3 million in the
1987-89 biennium to combat the disease. The
report assumes that 80 percent of those with AIDS
will become too ill to work, and the cost to the
state of each AIDS case will be; about $75,000
The anonymous testing program used
elsewhere in the state has not decreased the
number of people using lane County’s confiden
tial testing program, health officials say.
Caye Carinady. the county’s disease interven
tion specialist, said the county chose not to par
ticipate in the state's program because officials
believed in the effectiveness of their confidential
testing.
"We take such stringent confidentiality
measures that we felt it was not necessary to do
any more,'' Cannady said.
In addition. Cannady said collecting the name
and address of a person taking the AIDS test will
allow them to contact the person in the future if
new information or a cure becomes available
‘‘Our highest priority is confidentiality." she
said. But if a treatment were to become available,
it would be imperative to contact those who could
use the cure, she added
Hut Seibert said such a move would constitute
invasion of privacy
"I would be outraged if someone showed up at
my door after I took the tost." he said.
Cannady agreed that some people may look at
such contact as an infringement, but she believes
the lives saved by health officials ability to get
the cun* to the people who need it may outweigh
an individual's rights.
“Some do look at that as an invasion of privacy,
but one of the reasons we've had a reduction in
syphilis and gonorrhea in this country is because
we do (contact people)," Cannady said.
She added that while some may believe contact
is important to preventing the spread of the
disease, she does not believe it is wise to contact
people unless a treatment becomes available.
But while county officials ask the person being
tested for a name and address, they do not verify
the information
“There are people out there who need to be
tested who are so fearful of having their confiden
tiality jeopardized." Cannady said. This gives the
person being tested a way out if he or she wishes
to remain anonymous, although it is not en
couraged. she added.
Some AIDS activists see this as just one more
lie that gays and bisexuals, who make up 70 per
cent of those diagnosed as having AIDS, are forc
ed to tell.
"(lav and bisexual men have been forced to lie
for years and they don't want to have to lie
again." Seibert said.
With the county's admission that some people
being tested lie about who they are. there would
seem to be no need to ask for the information, said
the Rev. Ken Storer. executive director of Shanti
in Oregon, an AIDS support group.
"If there's this tacit agreement that it's all right
to lie. then why do you need to collect the infor
mation in the first place?” Storer said
Storer does not recommend taking the AIDS
test because it only tells a person whether the an
tibodies to the virus are present, not whether the
person will go on to develop AIDS or ARt! Up to
r>0 percent of those who develop ARC could go on
to get AIDS, according to the federal Centers for
Disease Control.
"Very often, people make a giant leap between
testing positive and dying of AIDS," Storer said.
Fear of public identification may be what is
keeping many people, especially intravenous
drug users, prostitutes and bisexual men. from
taking the AIDS test, said Ken Brownell. Mid
VAC vice chairman.
"Just the thought that someplace is your name,
address and phone number" is enough to keep
many people away from the test, he said. For in
stance. a bisexual man may be married or involv
ed in a relationship with a woman who may not
know about his other life, and he may avoid the
test for fear the woman will find out.
One of the arguments for having anonymous
testing is to identify high-risk people, then help
them change their lifestyles through counseling,
which could halt the spread of the disease to
others. Seibert said.
“It’s traumatizing to know the results ot the test
and not know what the test says,” Seibert said.
By making clear the difference between being
virus-positive and having AIDS, counselors can
save people a lot of needless agony and keep the
disease from spreading to the heterosexual com
munity. he added.
Despite his differences with county health of
ficials. Seibert said he believes in the integrity of
the people operating the county’s AIDS testing
program.
"There haven’t been any provable breaches of
confidence, and I don't think there will be.” he
said.
But at the same time. Seibert said he fears peo
ple an* focusing too much on the moral and
political aspects of the disease and forgetting its
medical implications.
"It’s putting politics before people, and it's
time for it to stop,” Seibert said.
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