Psychosocial issues in symptomatic HIV infection.

From: American Family Physician | Date: December 1, 1991| Author: Sadovsky, Richard | Copyright information

Providing care for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection not only involves treating the physiological aspects of the disease, but also involves addressing the psychosocial aspects. Incurable diseases are a great psychological burden to the patient. Patients with HIV infections are now living longer. Many of the patients are young and are not psychologically prepared to deal with isolation, pain, and death. AIDS may cause more psychosocial stress than other incurable disea...

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