title: AIDS and the politics of compassion.
abstract: The AIDS epidemic presents the health care community with an exceptionally complex set of challenges, says June E. Osborn, M.D., the chairwoman of the National Commission on AIDS. Care-giver burnout, clinical and cost issues, and above all the challenge the disease poses to health care provider--and societal--compassion, make this epidemic unusually difficult to tackle, she writes.
authors.affiliation: National Commission on AIDS.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Osborn
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D002055:Burnout, Professional; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D006291:Health Policy; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology