Posted on 07/14/2013 8:24:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A controversial measure that allows the police to detain people and force them to be tested for HIV has been reinstated by the new Greek health minister, Adonis Georgiadis.
In one of his first decisions as health minister, Georgiadis last week re-introduced the Public Health Decree 39A, which imposes measures such as obligatory testing for hepatitis, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and communicable diseases, according to the Greek media Enet.
Health organizations say the decree stigmatizes drug users, sex workers and undocumented migrants in particular. The text also states that any occupants of housing which “may cause danger to public health” should be evicted from their homes, without any alternative being offered. …
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“Health organizations say the decree stigmatizes drug users, sex workers and undocumented migrants in particular.”
We wouldn’t want to ‘stigmatize’ druggies or prostitutes, would we? That wouldn’t be nice...
otherwise known as mandatory DNA submissions via forced collection
someone’s trying to increase the DNA database to track its citizens
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