Difficult decisions: Ethics and AIDS

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Persons with AIDS (PWAs), who are marked by a diminution of their immune systems, are catapulted into a very different social reality. Thus, special attention is given to the necessity for legal empowerment and occupational contagion in the delivery of health care services by medical professionals. Unfortunately, choices made by some members of the medical community (and by representatives of other social organizations dealing with PWAs) promote economic and political interests. Thus, this paper concludes that the medical system (and related service organizations) are now fraught with “cracks,” through which many individuals fall, and it is at this system's level that ethical quandaries emerge as problems. Furthermore, it is suggested that the quality of our society may well be judged by the ways in which we deal with the ethical dilemmas that arise in the delivery of health care to persons with AIDS.

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