Objectives for a system of health care delivery for HIV infected people.

This paper assumes that the effectiveness and efficiency of an integrated community system of care for HIV infected people may depend to a large extent on common perceptions of the objectives of such a system among three sets of actors--the patient, the professional care manager, and the continual care giver. It discusses a decision analytic inquiry into that concurrence on objectives. The conclusion is that within the community studied there is strong evidence of a significant lack of such common purpose.