they refuse requests for information.
The government is trying to get Section 60 past us at a
time when the public trusts doctors less than ever before. The atmosphere
has already got so bad that parents are quite simply refusing to believe
what any health expert, no matter how qualified or paternal, tells them
about the MMR vaccine.
This will have obvious implications for GUM and HIV services. HIV patients
are already reluctant to go to their GPs, because they fear their status
being given - or sold - to insurers (believe us, this already happens).
Many asylum seekers won't even go to HIV clinics because they think their
details will pass straight to the Home Office.
Section 60 is a measure that threatens to reverse this country's relatively
good record on containing HIV. We will be campaigning against it vigorously.
We suggest you do too.
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