Mandatory HIV Tests

I think it is a lawsuit waiting to happen. No one can force any free person to take any test. If I were living in that area, I would look up my local chapter ACLU and sue the city. I would also go to my local t.v. stations and tell them the story.

Of course u have the right to say no to such an extreme behavior. I wonder why it is necessary to test everyone for HIV. Everyone would not accept it .Otherwise,it takes about 3 months for the antibody to appear in the blood since the body got infected. So it is nonsense to test all the people at the same time. If it is negtive now, it doesn't mean that the guy is safe.

That is a bit extreme worldwise! I would say that while we need to make sure we do all we can to try and stop the spread of this disease mandatory testing is a bit over the top and takes away a persons rights to control their own bodies and I think I would be offended if I was forced to take such a test! I do know that here you are automatically tested when you are having a baby but that is to make sure that all is okay with the baby! xxx

I was trying to find any news about this but haven't seen anything about mandatory testing for HIV here in NY...the only thing I found was a NY Times article about mandatory testing in Botswana http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E2DC1030F937A25755C0A9629C8B63 I do know that for a long time that newborn children are often tested for HIV--here's that article http://apha.confex.com/apha/132am/techprogram/paper_89273.htm In either case I would be against it...I have none of the risk factors involved for HIV so I would see it as an infringement of my rights

I think it is better to know what is going on with your body, but I do see your point. I would not want to go because I would feel like my rights were being infringed upon. Is the area in New York an area where many people have HIV?

I heard this on the news also. I see no problem here. Finland which attempts to be a social-democratic nation does mandatory testings and inoculations(?). It's for the good of the people. HIV might not show any symptoms, ever. Still the carrier can give it to others who might then get AIDS. Why wouldn't someone want to be tested?

I think it's because it's so contagious mate and while some are careful, many are reckless. I'm sure there will possibly be many who are diagnosed who never even considered they may be infected. This is where the danger is I think...when ignorant people are infecting innocent people.

Back in 1972, in British Columbia, they no longer allowed a test to see if someone had Vd before they got married. Before that, if you wanted a marriage license, you had to get a medical examination to see your fitness for a marriage license - i.e. if you were not a bad girl and did not carry gonorrhea or the other dread and socially unacceptable disease at that time. It was also socially unacceptable to go to a clinic to get a test voluntarily than because you would be branded a social pariah and so many girls who had Vd or boys that is, did not get tested until they started to have pains and then discovered they could not get pregnant, and the men found they were also sterile. I do believe that if you engaged in the behavior you should be tested, but why were we made to feel so much guilty that we were afraid to get tested back then? And if they have signs of the illness, would it not be too late?