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Screening/Testing
         

              Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Ethical issues surrounding the provider initiated opt – Out prenatal HIV screening practice in Sub – Saharan Africa: a literature review.
Bain LE, Dierickx K, Hens K. 

BMC Med Ethics
. 2015 Oct 24;16(1):73.
Abstract

Ethical implications of HIV self-testing.
Youngs J, Hooper C. 
J Med Ethics
. 2015 Aug 14.
Abstract

The Ethical, Legal and Human Rights Concerns Raised by Licensing HIV Self-Testing for Private Use.
Allais L, Venter F.
AIDS Behav. 2014 Jun 18
Abstract

Clinical Uncertainties, Health Service Challenges, and Ethical Complexities of HIV "Test-and-Treat": A Systematic Review.
Kulkarni SP, Shah KR, Sarma KV, Mahajan AP.
Am J Public Health. 2013 Apr 18
Abstract

FULL TEXT ARTICLE
The ethics of unlinked anonymous testing of blood: views from in-depth interviews with key informants in four countries.
Kessel AS, Datta J, Wellings K, Perman S.
BMJ Open
. 2012 Dec 20;2(6).
Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Ethics of screening for asymptomatic herpes virus type 2 infection
Krantz I, Gun-Britt Lowhagen G-B, Ahlberg BM, et al  

BMJ 
 2004;329:618-621
Paper

 

Patient Exploitation
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
FULL-TEXT PDF ARTICLE
Health, human rights, and the conduct of clinical research within oppressed populations.
Mills EJ, Singh S. 
Global Health. 2007 Nov 8;3(1):10
Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Crossing professional boundaries in medicine: the slippery slope to patient sexual
exploitation.
Galletly CA. 
Med J Aust. 2004 Oct 4;181(7):380-3
Paper


Refusal of Care/Services
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Homeless persons’ decisions to accept or reject public health disease-detection
services.
Swigart V, Kolb R.
Public Health Nurs. 2004 Mar-Apr;21(2):162-70
Abstract

Detention
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Detention and the evolving threat of tuberculosis: evidence, ethics, and law.
Coker R, Thomas M, Lock K, Martin R.
J Law Med Ethics. 2007 Winter;35(4):609-15.

Abstract

Compulsory Treatment
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Frontiers in care: a case of compulsory treatment in AIDS dementia. Case study and
commentaries.

Higgs R, Pinching AJ.

J Med Ethics
2000 Feb;26(1):61-5

Abstract

Decision-Making
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Clinical Uncertainties, Health Service Challenges, and Ethical Complexities of HIV "Test-and-Treat": A Systematic Review.
Kulkarni SP, Shah KR, Sarma KV, Mahajan AP.
Am J Public Health. 2013 Apr 18
Abstract

Problems With Prioritization: Exploring Ethical Solutions to Inequalities in HIV Care.
Johansson KA, Norheim OF.
Am J Bioeth. 2011 Dec;11(12):32-40.
Abstract

Living with conflicts-ethical dilemmas and moral distress in the health care system.
Kalvemark S, Hoglund AT, Hansson MG, et al.
Soc Sci Med. 2004 Mar; 58(6): 1075-84
Abstract

Internal and External Standards for Medical Morality.
Beauchamp TL
J Med Philos
2001 Dec;26(6):601-619
Abstract

 

Post-Exposure Prophylaxis following
Non-Occupational HIV Exposure

            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Post-exposure prophylaxis following non-occupational exposure to HIV: risks, uncertainties,
and ethics.

Mackie NE, Coker RJ
Int J STD AIDS 2000 Jul;11(7):424-7

Abstract
   
  HIV post-exposure therapy for drug users in treatment.
O’Connor PG
J Subst Abuse Treat 2000 Jan;18(1):17-21
Abstract

Names Reporting/ Partner Notification
 

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Support Among Persons Infected with HIV for Routine Health Department Contact
for HIV Partner Notification.
Golden MR, Hopkins SG, Morris M
 
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
2003 Feb 1;32(2):196-202
Abstract
 

Transplants
         

General Reports

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Realizing HOPE: The Ethics of Organ Transplantation From HIV-Positive Donors.
Durand CM, Segev D, Sugarman J. 
Ann Intern
Med
. 2016 Apr 5
Abstract

The transplantation of solid organs from HIV-positive donors to HIV-negative recipients: ethical implications.
Wispelwey BP, Zivotofsky AZ, Jotkowitz AB. 

J Med Ethics
. 2014 Jun 4
Abstract