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214.600 Legislative findings. The General Assembly finds that acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, otherwise <br>known as AIDS, constitutes a serious and unique danger to the public health and welfare. <br>The General Assembly finds that acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is transmitted by <br>sexual activity, by intravenous drug use, or from an infected mother to a fetus and that <br>public fear of contagion from casual contact is not supported by any scientific evidence. <br>The General Assembly finds that acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is transmitted by <br>a retrovirus which makes the possibility of development of an immunization or cure <br>highly unlikely in the near future. The General Assembly finds that, once infected, there <br>is a high probability that an individual will develop acquired immunodeficiency <br>syndrome or a related syndrome and die a premature death as a result, but may live <br>productively for years in a communicable state without showing any signs or symptoms <br>of illness. The General Assembly finds the unique methods of transmission of this <br>disease, and its inevitably fatal course, have raised public fears; changed the attitudes of <br>employers, insurers, educators, law enforcement personnel, and health and medical <br>providers about dealing with the disease; and could unexpectedly raise the medical costs <br>of this state. The General Assembly intends to establish programs and requirements <br>related to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome which carefully balance medical <br>necessity, the right to privacy, and protection of the public from harm and which establish <br>public programs for the care and treatment of persons with acquired immunodeficiency <br>syndrome and related conditions. Effective: July 13, 1990 <br>History: Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 443, sec. 1, efffective July 13, 1990.