HIV Weddings
HIV Weddings
May 30, 2005Posted By weddings
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Surfing the web, I came across this article: Wedding addresses HIV stigma, which while brief, got me to thinking about weddings for HIV positive couples. In africa (where this wedding was held), this is a pretty big deal - a significant part of their population suffers from the epidemic. In the U.S. though, I wonder - is it legal for an HIV positive couple to marry?
I searched around for the answer, and found that apparently this is a big issue in China as well - and the Chinese news and information seems to fill up all the search results. I did find a little bit of information though:
Many states require HIV testing be offered, and others make it mandatory that HIV Testing information be made available to wedding license applicants. No states actually require an HIV test. (this information is from 2002 - I don't know of any updates)
I know that many states require a blood test, and that STD testing is a part of the requirement in some states. More info on wedding blood testing coming in the future. It would be good if we had a guide that showed which states required blood tests, and what they were used for in each state.
HIV Weddings Commentary
May 30, 2005 07:59 AMPikkel Weezel
Why would you bother? Thats alot of trouble to go through when your not going to be around for long.
May 30, 2005 11:54 PMtalkingtina
Saw your Blog on BlogExplosion. Loved your article. Ty for saying what needed to be said. Take care and God Bless.
June 1, 2005 08:10 PMstormwind
It is illegal to disclose the results of HIV tests to anyone other than the person whose blood is being tested and it is at this time illegal to mandate or require that anyone who has all their rights (accused or convicted of certain crimes is different), be tested for HIV or AIDS.
Of course the responsible, ethical thing- would be for the person or parties to disclose to each other. BUT WHAT possible difference does it make to you if they are both positive and they want to get married? AND why should the state be involved? The potential for abuse of the information is larger than any possible gain in that situation.
I don't care if two persons with HIV wish to marry and I don't want my state involved in deciding a personal issue like that.
June 1, 2005 11:30 PMPatrick
That's interesting. Back in the day (and I'm showing my age here), if you caught something like Syphillis, they would interrogate you and track down everybody you ever slept with and tell them. Then they would interrogate those people and find out who they slept with. It was a big scam I think to get everybody in a given town to pay up for a test (and they were EXPENSIVE), but that's probably why they have the privacy laws now. A sailor could come home and end up getting run out of town because everybody knew he was "tainted".
June 3, 2005 09:02 PMGhostWriter
If it's NOT legal then that's pretty daggone sad, don't you think?
