AIDS: implications for employee benefit plans and personnel policies.
Current projections indicate an inexorable increase in AIDS cases, with no cure in sight. The disease is affecting primarily those aged 21 to 44--those who have, in the past, been the main participants in employer-sponsored benefit plans and Social Security. Humane, economically viable benefit plan and personnel policy solutions to this public health catastrophe are described herein.
D015492:AIDS Serodiagnosis; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003625:Data Collection; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States