Random A.I.D.S. tests rejected
PA Wellington The Ministry of Defence has no plans to introduce random testing for A.I.D.S. among service personnel, the department said. The director general of Defence Medical Services, Commodore Tony Slark, said anyone found suffering from the disease would be medically discharged. Commodore Slark said no cases of A.I.D.S. had been found among service personnel, and blood testing for the virus would only be done at the request of a consulting physician. Members of the Armed Forces already have an obligation, under existing regulations, to report any positive results of private medical tests. Commodore Slark said A.I.D.S. in the services environment was unlikely to be highly infectious. Existing provisions for the control and management of other serious Illnesses of a similar type were appropriate for human immune virus infection. Defence medical authorities had already issued instructions covering A.I.D.S. testing, as well as A.I.D.S. prevention lectures in various training centres.
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