title: [AIDS and society].
abstract: On the basis of information gathered from media the writer delineates the following aspects of the impact of AIDS upon social life: advertising the danger, sex education of the youth, purposeful contamination by AIDS-patients, legal repressive measures, the doctors and the right to test, Anglican Church and acceptance of homosexuality among ministers, antagonistic incentives epidemiologic research and the right to confidentiality. Finally, he endorses the recent declaration of the America Psychiatric Association determined to fight discrimination and refusal of care.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Koupernik
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D011287:Prejudice; D011639:Public Opinion; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: SIDA et société.