Abstract

The article deals primarily with the medical and social issues of HIV/AIDS which have strong impact on problems related to the medical ethics of the disease. Further, several more essential issues (patients’ discrimination, privacy, testing, and awareness) of the clinical ethics of HIV/AIDS are discussed in greater detail. Main focus is placed on the decrease of exceptionalism of HIV/AIDS owing to rapid progress in medical research, as well  as in clinical and social care. Improvement of the HIV/AIDS situation requires further development of interdisciplinary networking to support human wellbeing in the case of the disease on different levels of social organization, with critically important involvement of people and communities of clinical care, medical research and public health. In this sense HIV/AIDS clearly differs from previous epidemics.