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Societal and Clinical Approaches to Preventing Pediatric AIDS: Some Psychological Aspects and Their Ethical Implications

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 5, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 9-16
Edmund G. Howe

This analysis will focus on the psychological factors likely to affect women under each of these circumstances and, in light of these factors, the degree to which physicians should adhere to customary values such as maintaining patients' confidentiality and remaining morally neutral. The implications of recent findings regarding the effectiveness of zidovudine (AZT) and aerosolized pentamidine in postponing the development of AIDS symptoms will also be discussed.
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