A.I.D.S. tests for surgeons?
PA Wellington Surgeons and their patients should be encouraged to take voluntary tests for A.1.D.5., the Medical Association has proposed. This proposal forms part of a code of practice the association will consider adopting. Its members — which account for 74 per cent of the country’s doctors — would be expected to adhere to the guidelines. Even non-members are likely to find they are
expected to adopt the code as all doctors are accountable to the Medical Practitioners Discipinary Committee which generally follows the association’s ethical guidelines. At present, mandatory testing for the virus is Required of donors of blood, organs and other tissues intended for transplantation. Donors of semen or ova collected for artificial insemination or in-vitro fertilisation also have to be tested.
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Press, 30 November 1987, Page 35
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