[Nursing the patient with AIDS and the AIDS carrier].

The nursing care of the patient with AIDS consists of a challenge for the improvement of Nursing in general not only because of the gravity of the disease and the very bad prognosis but also because of the great socioeconomic and psychological effects that accompany it. Nursing care in the hospital consists of facing the symptomatology of the disease and meeting the many physical, psychological and social needs of the patient. Nursing care at home is influenced by many factors and is dependent on the good information given to the members of the family through a well organized service of the community nursing.