Managing occupational stress associated with HIV infection. Self-care and self-management skills

There is a crisis in health care that has to do with the ability of health-care workers to provide the long-term care and help for AIDS patients. Although more severe, it is just an extreme form of the denial among health care professionals of their own needs, and lack of ability to manage stress. The situation also reflects absence of explicit concern in health settings for creating environments that are healthy for staff. This paper has suggested some of the forms that a comprehensive response to this problem can take.