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214.600 Legislative findings.
The General Assembly finds that acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, otherwise
known as AIDS, constitutes a serious and unique danger to the public health and
welfare. The General Assembly finds that acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is
transmitted by sexual activity, by intravenous drug use, or from an infected mother to
a fetus and that public fear of contagion from casual contact is not supported by any
scientific evidence. The General Assembly finds that acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome is transmitted by a retrovirus which makes the possibility of development
of an immunization or cure highly unlikely in the near future. The General Assembly
finds that, once infected, there is a high probability that an individual will develop
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or a related syndrome and die a premature
death as a result, but may live productively for years in a communicable state
without showing any signs or symptoms of illness. The General Assembly finds the
unique methods of transmission of this disease, and its inevitably fatal course, have
raised public fears; changed the attitudes of employers, insurers, educators, law
enforcement personnel, and health and medical providers about dealing with the
disease; and could unexpectedly raise the medical costs of this state. The General
Assembly intends to establish programs and requirements related to acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome which carefully balance medical necessity, the right to
privacy, and protection of the public from harm and which establish public programs
for the care and treatment of persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
and related conditions.
Effective:July 13, 1990
History: Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 443, sec. 1, efffective July 13, 1990.
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