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To the Editor: In the Nov. 5 issue of the Journal, Gellert et al.¹ wrote about the benefits of the disclosure of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection by celebrities, saying that "such disclosures have an impressive effect on the public health." As evidence of this impressive effect, they demonstrate graphically that anonymous HIV testing increased dramatically after the disclosure, voluntary or involuntary, of the HIV status of such celebrities as Rock Hudson, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, and Arthur Ashe. Their graph, however, traces not only the increase in testing after such disclosures, but also the number of tests that were positive. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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