Meeting the Challenge: Palliative Care for Injection Drug Users Living with HIV/AIDS: A Resource Tool for Caregivers

A resource guide for caregivers of people living with HIV/AIDS who are also injection drug users, and who live in settings such as hospitals, residential hospices, supportive housing, individual homes, shelters or single occupancy hotel rooms. The guide focuses on general principles and approaches to meeting the complex challenges of providing palliative care for people with HIV who also face issues of stigma and social isolation, complex and changing HIV treatments and medications, and legal and health issues related to drug use. The guide takes a harm reduction approach to drugs and addresses the legal and ethical issues involved for caretakers using this approach in palliative care practice.