The Final Report The vast majority of respondents to the Discussion Paper and the participants at the national workshop on HIV testing and confidentiality supported the arguments put forward in the Paper, as well as its conclusions. [...] While the Report addresses the issues raised by HIV testing and confidentiality in Canada, a review of the situation in other countries was undertaken, and the Final Report contains numerous references to international documents on HIV testing produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, as well as to approaches to HIV testing and confidential [...] For each of the above issues, the Report briefly summarizes the recommendations made in some of the most important reports and policy statements published by Canadian organizations between 1986 and 1998 (History), including, but not limited to • the 1986 report on the legal implications of HIV/AIDS of the Canadian Bar Association - Ontario (CBA-Ontario);7 • the 1988 recommendations on HIV testing [...] To remain free?25 Each of these questions has forced a confrontation over the fundamental matter of the relationship between the defence of privacy and the protection of public health, and over the roles of voluntarism and coercion in the social response to the threat of HIV/AIDS.26 Some of these questions and other questions related to HIV-antibody testing and confidentiality have remained contro [...] Benefits from Testing The Early Days - 1985-1988 When the HIV test was first introduced in 1985, it was of very limited utility for the purposes of medical treatment of the individual or for the prevention of the spread of infection to the community.