AIDS and confidentiality

AIDS and medical confidentiality.

In summary, I have argued that the arguments offered or hinted at in favour of doctors' breaking medical confidentiality by passing on information about their patients' HIV state to others, including other doctors, when this is against the patient's considered wishes are generally unconvincing. Although in highly exceptional cases there may be justifications for overriding confidentiality, the ...

HIV and AIDS: Testing, Screening, and Confidentiality.

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AIDS, therapeutic confidentiality, and warning third parties.

HIV infection and AIDS: the ethics of medical confidentiality.

An Institute of Medical Ethics working party argues that an ethically desirable relationship of mutual empowerment between patient and clinician is more likely to be achieved if patients understand the ground rules of medical confidentiality. It identifies and illustrates ambiguities in the General Medical Council's guidance on AIDS and confidentiality, and relates this to the practice of diffe...

Duty of Confidentiality and HIV/AIDS: PD v Harvey.

The issue of doctor-patient confidentiality in situations where the doctor can reasonably foresee that third parties associated with the patient could be put at risk by the patient's medical status is a continuing conundrum. In a case heard in the New South Wales Supreme Court in 1999, BT v Oei (1999) NSWSC 1082, the court held that a medical practitioner owed a duty of care to the sexual partn...