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/library/oar/handle/123456789/34137| Title: | Ethical issues in AIDS screening introduction : why screen? |
| Authors: | Savona-Ventura, Charles |
| Keywords: | AIDS (Disease) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Malta AIDS (Disease) -- Malta Hepatitis -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 1992-01-25 |
| Publisher: | Union of Government Medical Doctors. Malta |
| Citation: | Savona-Ventura, C. (1992). Ethical issues in AIDS screening introduction : why screen? Union of Government Medical Doctors (U.G.M.D., Malta) Seminar on screening for blood transmissible disease, Malta. 2-6. |
| Abstract: | AIDS poses a number of ethical problems. It is recognised that AIDS is a devastating disease and that to be tested and found positive for HIV infection can have serious consequences for an individual. By implication, therefore, it would seem that we are ethically and legally bound to seek consent before we take an HIV test from a patient. Ethical problems also exist however in relation to public health, clinical care and confidentiality (Watson, 1990). |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/34137 |
| Appears in Collections: | Screening for blood transmissible disease : proceedings U.G.M.D. seminar |
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