HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone.
Rethinking
HIV exceptionalism: The ethics of opt-out HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa.
It seems that their position can only be held if they subscribe to two types of 'exceptionalism': (i)
HIV exceptionalism and (ii) South African exceptionalism.
In a private communication, the authors stated that there are at least four reasons for
HIV Exceptionalism:
Second, the resulting HIV exceptionalism fuels and perpetuates stigma associated with HIV.
The criminalization of HIV transmission and exposure, without criminalizing the transmission of other infections, sexually transmitted or not, is not rational, and results in "HIV Exceptionalism," whereby HIV is treated differently than other health threats on the basis of its being perceived as "exceptional" and warranting different treatment.
Routine screening: informed consent, stigma and the waning of
HIV exceptionalism. Am J Bioeth, 2006, 6, 5-8.
The view that genetics raises distinct issues is what Thomas Murray labeled "genetic exceptionalism," borrowing from the earlier term "
HIV exceptionalism." (1) The issue of whether the use of genetic information should be addressed separately from other health information is not merely an academic concern, however.
(12) See Ronald Bayer, Public Health Policy and the AIDS Epidemic-An End to
HIV Exceptionalism?, 324 New Eng.
An end to
HIV exceptionalism?' (N Engl J Med 1991; 324: 1500-1504); see also Ronald Bayer and Claire Edington, 'HIV testing, human rights, and global AIDS policy: Exceptionalism and its discontents' (Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2009; 34(3)).
(10) See Ronald Bayer, Public Health Policy and the AIDS Epidemic: An End to
HIV Exceptionalism?, 324 New Eng.
it was clear that a major epidemic had begun"); Ronald Bayer, Public Health Policy and the AIDS Epidemic: An End to
HIV Exceptionalism?, 324 New Eng.
