UK: court orders publication ban in case of HIV-positive health-care worker.
In November 2001, an HIV-positive health-care worker brought legal proceedings to prevent the National Health Service from notifying his previous patients that he is infected. The health authorities had intended to carry out a "look back" exercise to notify patients that they may have been exposed.
D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006801:Humans; D011363:Professional Impairment; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom