Unnecessary Deaths from AIDS?
http://64.39.30.79/columnists/horowitz/2001/dh08-21-01.htm
Case in point, couples getting married must get tested for syphillis but not HIV. Not because of health issues, but because of politics. Allegedly, 40,000 people a year go undiagnosed, unknowingly infect others, and get much sicker than need be since we now have some efficatious treatments. If this is so, then appeasing a political constituency is causing unnecessary deaths, from a health epidemic control viewpoint.
-philw