title: The National Commission on AIDS.
abstract: A decade after the first cases were recognized in the United States, AIDS continues to vex policymakers and fascinate the public. It has been said that AIDS acts as a prism, refracting a spectrum of controversial topics. For bioethicists, these topics include: equity in the allocation of resources for treatment and research; forgoing life-sustaining care and proxy decision making; informed consent in the context of HIV testing and screening; the ethical duties of health care workers to provide care for persons with HIV disease; and competing obligations of health care professionals to patients and to third parties who may be put at risk.
authors: National Commission on AIDS.
authors: D S
authors: DS
authors: Goldman
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Stryker
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D026683:Advisory Committees; D001675:Bioethics; D035082:Federal Government; D033161:Government Regulation; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000592:standards*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011057:Politics; D012106:Research; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology