Currently, outside of the infectious diseases and internal medicine wards of 20-some hospitals--including NTUH, Veterans General Hospital and Mackay Memorial Hospital--which are required by the DOH to treat AIDS patients, it is common for doctors to politely refuse to treat HIV-positive patients. Some doctors, especially dentists and surgeons, even go so far as to change their methods of treatment when confronted with HIV-positive patients.
目前除了台大、榮總、馬偕… … 等二十餘家衛生署指定醫院的感染科、內科醫護人員不得拒絕愛滋病患外，其他醫院、科別的醫生常常對愛滋病患「敬謝不敏」，甚至更改處置，特別是牙科和外科。