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To the Editor: In his essay on the responsibilities of people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection to their sexual partners (June 6 issue),¹ Bayer concludes that personal responsibility has a central role in AIDS prevention and that "matters of sexual ethics are not moralistic diversions. They are at the heart of AIDS prevention." However, only a minority of HIV-infected people can be expected to tell their partners about their infections.² The effectiveness of disclosure decreases in direct proportion to the increasing number of partners.³ Bayer and Toomey earlier acknowledged that many persons who know they are infected fail to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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