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NEW YORK [June 26, 1989] — Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph's much maligned proposal to curtail anonymous HIV antibody testing, and implement mandatory name reporting and aggressive contact tracing for those who are infected with HIV, was abruptly vetoed by State Health Commissioner David Axelrod one week after it was unveiled. [...]

Under the proposal, physicians would be required to report to the Health Department the names of all people who test positive for HIV, the virus thought by many to cause AIDS. Health Department employees would then ask those who test positive to voluntarily disclose sexual and needle-sharing partners, who in turn would be contacted by the Department of Health. [...]

A group of 46 AIDS service-providers, physicians and activists released a joint statement at a June 14th [1989] press conference, condemning Joseph's proposal. The statement declared, "We should not forget the most basic public health lesson learned over the years of the AIDS epidemic: measures of compulsion or coercion directed at persons who are HIV infected drive these people away from medical care and treatment, and it is a massive disincentive to their entry into the health care system. This will particularly affect women of color and their children who must use the health care system for prenatal and perinatal care." The group recommended expanding anonymous testing and counseling centers that already exist.[...]

Ronald Johnson, executive director of the Minority Task Force on AIDS, told the assembled media that Joseph's policy is most damaging for people of color. "There is a very real fear of discrimination in Black and Latino communities," he said, contesting the benefits of mandatory reporting. "It's a cruel hoax to talk about clinical advantages of HIV testing, while many cases get nowhere about health knowing the reality of the health care system, which often entails waiting periods of two to four months [for access to treatment]," he continued. "Joseph must talk about services that are currently available. We can't wait for services to trickle down," he said.

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The activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), which sponsored morning and evening demonstrationts at City Hall on June 8th [1989] to protest the proposal, called for Joseph to be removed from office. With hundreds of police officers surrounding City Hall, nearly 200 demonstrators disrupted early morning traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, and temporarily shut down the nearby Department of Health building. "First you don't exist, now you're on a list," stated an ACT UP flyer prepared for the demonstration, referring to Joseph's decision last summer to halve the city's official estimate of city residents who are HIV positive. [...]

"Contact tracing has been the trend for the last three years," said Veneita Porter, director of the New York State Office of AIDS Discrimination. "There is a lot of pressure from the federal government to make New York a test case to see how tracing works. But it can only work in an environment where there is no discrimination and where treatment is available for everyone. This situation certainly does not exist here."

Joseph said he would recommend keeping HIV reporting separate from the reporting of other sexually transmitted diseases in order to avoid "archaic" quarantine laws. But several activists said they fear that Joseph's proposal would play into the hands of right-wing supporters of quarantine and other repressive measures. "It's something we have to be very wary of," said Porter.

— Chris Bull, “Axelrod Vetoes Joseph’s Test Plan,” OutWeek Magazine No. 1, June 26, 1989, p. 6.

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The U.S. Civil Rights Commissions' Clarence Pendleton had a heart attack and died three weeks after a single ACT UP demonstration against him. And his replacement, William Barclay Allen, resigned just days after OutWeek made him Nightmare of the Week. But AIDS activists' persistent attention to NYC Health Commissioner Joseph has had considerably less effect.

He responded to a nearly year-long hounding by testifying before the judge who eventually convicted 11 of the activists for criminal trespass.

All the while trying to implement mandatory name reporting and contact tracing for HIV positives, over the loud and persistent objections of virtually every AIDS organization in the city.

And although, with any luck at all, he'll be out on his tight, macho ass in another three months, he continues to parade his right-wing ideas through the halls of 125 Worth St.

Take a cue from W.B.A. — Resign before it's too late, Steve. Remember Clarence Pendleton.

— "Nightmare of the Week," OutWeek Magazine No. 19, October 29, 1989, p. 9.

[outweek30]

Though we're certain it was belched forth from that vortex of activism at 13th Street and Seventh Avenue, we don't officially know who it was who produced and — in typical guerilla advertising fashion — "placed" these placards in subway cars throughout the five boroughs. What piqued our curiosity most, however, is the fact that all of the copy was culled directly from an early OutWeek editorial. And we have one question for the "creators" of the poster: Not that we're egomaniacs, but. since you forcibly sucked us into the seedy world of advertising copywriting, couldn't you at least have given us an itzy, bitzy, teenie, weenie credit?

— Michelangelo Signorile, "Look Out," OutWeek Magazine No. 14, September 24, 1989, p. 42.