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Udo Schuklenk, PhD and Anita Kleinsmidt, LLM

Udo Schuklenk is with the Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Anita Kleinsmidt is an attorney in South Africa.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Udo Schuklenk, PhD, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada (e-mail: udo.schuklenk@gmail.com).

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We thank Groves et al. for their constructive, critical comments. Our paper acknowledges that compulsory HIV testing regimes might deter pregnant women from seeking antenatal care. At this point in time, we do not know whether this actually would be the case, or, if it did act as a deterrent, how many women might be deterred from seeking antenatal care (this kind of cost—as determined by the relevant regulatory authorities—would have to be balanced against lives saved). Our article proposed a pilot study designed to investigate this question, among others.

All other things being equal, voluntary counseling and testing is . . . [Full Text]