ABSTRACT
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) The acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a painful disease. Not only is there a high incidence of patients reporting pain, but some two thirds of all patients describe constant pain interfering with their lives to a significant or severe degree. Many different pain syndromes are described, and patients present with more than one, said to be an average of three different pains. Not only is pain in AIDS inadequately treated, it threatens to pose a greater problem as survival rates improve.
