Soviet AIDS Carrier Vows 5-Year Celibacy
From Reuters
MOSCOW —
A 28-year-old Leningrad woman diagnosed as a carrier of the AIDS virus was released from a hospital today after signing a pledge to have no sexual contact for five years, the official Soviet press agency Tass reported.
It said her undertaking to forswear sex was in accordance with a decree adopted in August. If she fails to keep to her pledge, she faces up to eight years in prison.
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