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From: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: Get tested
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limonce@pilot.njin.net wrote in sci.med.aids:
> Not only get confidential testing, but make sure they do counseling
> before the test, and then again after you get the results whether they
> are positive or negative.  
> Here in New Jersey there are a number of testing centers sponsored by
> the Hyathinth Foundation [...] they require counseling before and after.
                                      ^^^^^^^

I can imagine what most of the people who need testing will think of an
organization like this.  "Another f***ing social work interview".  Most
poor people get a social worker before they get a godparent, another one
around the time of their first communion, a new section of their file at
marriage, and extreme unction by rubber stamp in a social worker's
clipboard.  They HATE the bastards, with good reason.  And requiring yet
another piece of ritual degradation at their hands as a precondition for
testing is the most effective single way I can think of to ensure that
none of them will go anywhere near a testing centre unless handcuffed in
a police van.

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