Document 0888
 DOCN  M9470888
 TI    Ethical issues in perinatal HIV.
 DT    9409
 AU    Bonkovsky FO; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
 SO    Clin Perinatol. 1994 Mar;21(1):15-28. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94283005
 AB    Perinatal HIV raises difficult ethical issues and value conflicts for
       practitioners, patients, and the public. Part I gives an overview of US
       infant HIV realities and the devastating worldwide HIV and tuberculosis
       pandemics. In part II, the major ethical issues regarding perinatal HIV
       including confidentiality, advance directives, US rights, and right to
       medical care where HIV exists. Also reviewed are quality of life and
       death, consideration of selective and more general problems associated
       with prenatal and neonatal screening, and pregnancy termination and
       postponement where perinatal HIV is likely.
 DE    Abortion, Therapeutic  Adult  Advance Directives/LEGISLATION & JURISPRUD
       Confidentiality/LEGISLATION & JURISPRUD  *Ethics, Medical  Female  Human
       HIV Infections/*CONGENITAL/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION
       Incidence  Infant, Newborn  Informed Consent/LEGISLATION & JURISPRUD
       Male  Mass Screening/LEGISLATION & JURISPRUD  Patient
       Advocacy/LEGISLATION & JURISPRUD  Pregnancy  Pregnancy Complications,
       Infectious/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/PSYCHOLOGY  Quality of Life  Risk Factors
       Terminal Care/PSYCHOLOGY  United States/EPIDEMIOLOGY  World Health
       JOURNAL ARTICLE  REVIEW  REVIEW, TUTORIAL

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