English court upholds ban on newspaper publishing identity of HIV-positive health-care worker.
In the last issue of the Review, we reported about an HIV-positive health-care worker in the UK who brought legal proceedings to prevent the National Health Service from notifying his previous patients that he is infected. In February 2002, the Court of Appeal for England and Wales (Civil Division) upheld a ban on publishing his name and that of the health authority for which he worked.
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D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004739:England; D015658:HIV Infections; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D009524:Newspapers as Topic