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They, therefore, offer the GPA, which would regulate the procedures by which individually identifiable genetic samples and information can be obtained and disseminated. The choice to regulate the procedures through which highly personal information is acquired and disclosed has been made before, most recently in the case of HIV-related information. From the start of the AIDS epidemic, advocates and policy makers recognized that information about an individual's HIV status was highly personal, and that disclosure of such information could subject the individual to social ostracism and discrimination in employment, insurance, and health care. Yet, since 1985, HIV antibody testing has been seen as vital to protecting the blood supply, epidemiological research, and counseling individuals to give up high-risk behavior. Testing, however, results in highly personal information.