Positive Carers

This work examines the media's role in generating an unnecessary fear of HIV positive health care workers. There is not one safely proven case of HIV being transmitted from a health care worker to patient anywhere in the world, yet much fear surrounds the HIV-infected care worker. The book provides a reasoned clinical debate on individual managerial and state accountability in health care, looking at the practicality of continuing employment after diagnosis and exploring the dilemmas a worker may face.