Psychosocial Issues for Patients with AIDS-Related Cancers

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Abstract
The social and psychological aspects of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are almost as complex and challenging as the biological. Its onset affects every aspect of a patient’s life; it may cause serious problems for those with whom the patient has personal, intimate familial, or occupational ties; it produces difficult patient management issues for health care institutions and community agencies; and it raises basic ethical issues for the health care community as long as the contagious potential of the disease remains. The complexity of problems confronting people with AIDS and the terror it invokes set this disease apart from virtually every other contemporary public health problem.

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