AIDS Prevention — Sexual Ethics and Responsibility

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Do people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have special responsibilities to their sexual partners? If so, what do these responsibilities involve? Merely raising these questions directly has tended, until recently, to disquiet many people involved in AIDS-prevention efforts.From the onset of the AIDS epidemic in 1981, it became increasingly clear that questions of sexual ethics could not be avoided. Here was a new fatal disease, spread in the context of sexual relations that are typically consensual. The questions posed by AIDS were not fundamentally different from those raised by other sexually transmitted diseases. But the lethality of . . .