title: PA impairment due to HIV infection. Part II: Building a professional support network. Forum.
abstract: Several members of the AAPA's Lesbian and Gay Physician Assistants Caucus who participated in the roundtable PAs and HIV-Antibody Testing: The Need for Guidelines When the Practitioner Is at Risk (1989;13[5]:146-158) met with members of the 12-Step/Caduceus Caucus to begin developing a cooperative effort to assist PAs who test positive for antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus, and to explore other HIV-associated impairment issues. Part II focuses on concerns of the provider who is HIV-antibody positive as well as ways PA groups can cooperate to raise the profession's conciousness further and recommend guidelines and policy.
mesh_terms: D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010823:Physician Assistants / Q000523:psychology*; D011363:Professional Impairment / Q000523:psychology*; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States