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... providers towards high-risk patients; in particular, patients with HIV/AIDS. To my attention came a case of a young pregnant woman, who was denied access to both state and private health care institutions in the Republic of Georgia. I would like to analyze this case from the perspective of both national and international health laws showing how the decisions of those health institutions conflict with the ethics and laws. Let us first listen to the person whose problem is to be examined. She is a 28 year old Georgian woman, who had not been informed about her positive HIV status until the late stage of pregnancy. In the interview with a medical doctor from AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Center of Georgia[1] she said: The fact that my husband and I are HIV infected came to our knowledge during my pregnancy in 2002. The fetus was already too big and I could not ...