WMA General Assembly2019-09-252019-09-252011-03-122007-040975-5691http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/176876"HIV/AIDS is a global pandemic that has created unprecedented challenges for physicians and health infrastructures. In addition to representing a staggering public health crisis, HIV/AIDS is also fundamentally a human rights issue. Many factors drive the spread of the disease, such as poverty, homelessness, illiteracy, prostitution, human trafficking, stigma, discrimination, and gender-based inequality. Efforts to tackle the disease are constrained by the lack of human and financial resources in health care systems. These social, economic, legal and human rights factors affect not only the public health dimension of HIV/ AIDS but also individual physicians/health workers and patients, their decisions and relationships."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderAIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency SyndromehealthBioethicsSocial ethicsSexual orientation/genderMedical ethicsHealth ethicsArticle