Restricting access of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seropositive patients to infertility services: a legal analysis of the rights of reproductive endocrinologists and of HIV-seropositive patients

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1483-1490

  Phelps, John Y ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; discrimination; HIV; infertility; IVF

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINOLOGIST; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFERTILITY; LEGAL ASPECT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT RIGHTS; PREJUDICE; REFUSAL TO TREAT; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; WRONGFUL LIFE;

EID: 36749076040     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.09.018     Document Type: Review

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