Doctors' attitudes towards the right to medical care for AIDS patients without discrimination A field study from the point of view of doctors in Batna state

Abstract

The study aims to identify the doctors' attitudes towards the right to medical care for the AIDSer without discrimination from the rest of the patients, and we adopted the descriptive analysis approach, and a sample composed of 40 individual a Here is a selection of general practitioners. and Batna state specialists of both genders, and the study reached a set of results of which the most important are:

-That there are positive attitudes of doctors towards devoting the right to medical care to an AIDSer without discrimination.

- Physicians' positive attitude towards supporting the enactment of a law criminalizing the physician's refusal to provide medical care to an AIDSer.

- The study concluded, according to the doctors' point of view, that fear of infection transmission is one of the most important motives that drive some doctors  to treat AIDSer by distinguishing them from other patients.