[Selection of seropositive persons for AIDS as practiced by group insurance agents (disease and professional caution) in Switzerland].
Rejection, exclusion and discriminating attitudes may disturb an AIDS prophylactic approach, which is based on individual responsibility. Fear, apprehension and mistrust induce dissimulation, evasion and refusal. In Switzerland, the selective policy of some group insurances, which offer necessary covering for employment, forms a prejudicial element of social splitting for seropositive people. The practice of HIV-tests for exclusion purpose promotes a tendency to secrecy, which is unfavourable to the social and medical control of the epidemic, especially because medical secret relatively to insurances is insufficient. This situation alarms the Swiss Aids Foundation which has put forward several motions and began speaking with the most important representative unions of Swiss insurers.
Aide Suisse contre le Sida, Zurich.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D011287:Prejudice; D012935:Social Justice; D013557:Switzerland
La sélection des personnes séropositives pour le SIDA opérée par les assurances collectives (maladie et prévoyance professionnelle) en Suisse.