Social Support Among HIV Positive and AIDS Diagnosed Women Living in Rural U.S. Communities
Author : Suzanne Michelle Carlberg
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 1997
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ISBN :
HIV/AIDS in Rural Communities
Author : Fayth M. Parks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3319562398
Book Description
This wide-ranging volume reviews the experience and treatment of HIV/AIDS in rural America at the clinical, care system, community, and individual levels. Rural HIV-related phenomena are explored within healthcare contexts (physician shortages, treatment disparities) and the social environment (stigma, the opioid epidemic), and contrasted with urban frames of reference. Contributors present latest findings on HIV medications, best practices, and innovative opportunities for improving care and care settings, plus invaluable first-person perspective on the intersectionality of patient subpopulations. These chapters offer both seasoned and training practitioners a thorough grounding in the unique challenges of providing appropriate and effective services in the region. Featured topics include: Case study: Georgia’s rural vs. non-rural populations HIV medications: how they work and why they fail Pediatric/adolescent HIV: legal and ethical issues Our experience: HIV-positive African-American women in the Deep South Learning to age successfully with HIV Bringing important detail to an often-marginalized population, HIV/AIDS in Rural Communities will interest and inspire healthcare practitioners including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, case managers, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and family therapists, as well as educators, students, persons living with HIV, advocates, community leaders, and policymakers.
Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS
Author : R Dennis Shelby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 113542070X
Book Description
Meet the women behind the statistics! Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected population of the United States. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences. This powerful text offers a firsthand view of what it is like to live day-to-day as a woman with the added burden of HIV/AIDS. Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected with HIV. Their stories detail their ongoing efforts—with varying degrees of success—to come to grips with the disease as they try to rebuild their lives. Through qualitative analysis, the book demonstrates the importance of relational resources, such as AIDS activism, support groups, and social support. It also addresses potential problems for women associated with caregiving and presents ethnographic research findings on the complex factors that affect women with HIV (socioeconomic status, sexual preference, lifestyle differences). Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS also addresses research topics such as: how HIV infection affects a woman's sense of self how women repair disruption and restore identities the limits to women's coping strategies and whether those strategies still work if women become functionally impaired or develop AIDS how women's structural and social environments facilitate or impede repair the role of women's informal networks in biological disruption and repair A rare look at the experience of women infected with HIV (most studies focus on male samples), Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is an invaluable academic resource as a course supplement in the fields of medical sociology, women's studies, public health, and community health, and is an enlightening read for everyone interested in HIV/AIDS research.
Social Support and HIV/AIDS in Rural America
Author : Angela Anima-Korang
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 2017
Category : HIV-positive persons
ISBN :
Book Description
Social support for people living with HIV in rural America remains a considerably understudied aspect of HIV/AIDS prevention. People living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) require extensive support in order to remain in care, and reduce their viral suppression, and other disease complications. Without support, the likelihood that PLHA will refrain from or drop out of treatment options is gravely heightened, which consequently poses a significant threat for efforts to eliminate HIV as a public health issue. Using a mixed-method approach to Social Network Analysis, this study examines the principal role that social support plays in a person's likelihood to adhere to care and consequently, attain viral suppression. Specifically, it looks at the roles of the family, friends, partners/spouses, and healthcare providers. The study also explores how social relations serve as mediators to stigma and discrimination, especially for disproportionate groups. Closely linked to social support availability is the perceived level of significance of the type of support that is available to the subjects. The study therefore goes further to explore the subjects' perception of the support they receive (emotional, informational, and instrumental) and their satisfaction with it. This is imperative in that it sheds light on the role that the subjects' social relations plays in their retention in care. This research again takes an interdisciplinary approach by exploring the contribution of both communication and health communication strategies to effect behavioral change. It contributes to research on HIV/AIDS health equity, and infectious disease management. It also contributes to efforts to identify strategies to control the spread of HIV by proposing efficient ways to optimize social support through the stages of the Care Continuum and consequently, facilitate an increase in the number of people who attain viral suppression.
The Relationships Between Depression and HIV-related Stigma, Disclosure of HIV-positive Status, and Social Support Among African-American Women with HIV Disease Living in the Rural Southeastern United States
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2009
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ISBN :
Book Description
The relationships between depression and HIV-related stigma, disclosure of HIV-positive status, and social support among African-American women with HIV disease living in the rural southeastern United States.
A Community Resource Guide for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Western Montana
Author : Katrina Lin Brucker
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2013
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN :
Book Description
The number of people becoming infected with HIV has surpassed the number of people who die each year with HIV/AIDS in the United States. In the past decade there has been an increase in the incidence of HIV/AIDS diagnoses among rural populations. As of June 2011, there were 532 known cases of people living with HIV in Montana. A literature review was preformed to better understand the needs of rural dwelling people living with HIV/AIDS in Montana. Specifically, needs related to improving psychological, social, and emotional health and ultimately overall quality of life. Once common needs were identified for improving quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS, a community resource guide was created. Resources were gathered through an Internet search and interviews with professionals who work with people living with HIV/AIDS in Montana. The need for community resources for people living with HIV/AIDS has been increasingly recognized as this population lives longer. While medications continue to be developed, the mental health and well-being also needs to be addressed. It has been recognized that rural dwelling people living with HIV/AIDS have a unique set of needs related to the potential for social isolation. Lack of community resources and community involvement has been shown to have a direct negative correlation on outcomes of PLWHA in rural areas. Current research shows that access to community resources and social interaction can lead to better physical and mental health outcomes for rural dwelling people living with HIV/AIDS.
Stigma, Discrimination and Living with HIV/AIDS
Author : Pranee Liamputtong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9400763247
Book Description
Up until now, many articles have been written to portray stigma and discrimination which occur with people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in many parts of the world. But this is the first book which attempts to put together results from empirical research relating to stigma, discrimination and living with HIV/AIDS. The focus of this book is on issues relevant to stigma and discrimination which have occurred to individuals and groups in different parts of the globe, as well as how these individuals and groups attempt to deal with HIV/AIDS. The book comprises chapters written by researchers who carry out their projects in different parts of the world and each chapter contains empirical information based on real life situations. This can be used as an evidence for health care providers to implement socially and culturally appropriate services to assist individuals and groups who are living with HIV/AIDS in many societies. The book is of interest to health care providers who have their interests in working with individuals and groups who are living with HIV/AIDS from a cross-cultural perspective. It will be useful for students and lecturers in courses such as anthropology, sociology, social work, nursing, public health and medicine. In particular, it will assist health workers in community health centres and hospitals in understanding issues related to HIV/AIDS and hence provide culturally sensitive health care to people living with HIV/AIDS from different social and cultural backgrounds. The book is useful for anyone who is interested in HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in diverse social and cultural settings.
Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS
Author : Pranee Liamputtong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9400758871
Book Description
There are about 34 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS. Half are women. There has been a dramatic global increase in the rates of women living with HIV/AIDS. Among young women, especially in developing countries, infection rates are rapidly increasing. Many of these women are also mothers with young infants. When a woman is labeled as having HIV, she is treated with suspicion and her morality is being questioned. Previous research has suggested that women living with HIV/AIDS can be affected by delay in diagnosis, inferior access to health care services, internalized stigma and a poor utilization of health services. This makes it extremely difficult for women to take care of their own health needs. Women are also reluctant to disclose their HIV-positive status as they fear this may result in physical feelings of shame, social ostracism, violence, or expulsion from home. Women living with HIV/AIDS who are also mothers carry a particularly heavy burden of being HIV-infected. This unique book attempts to put together results from empirical research and focuses on issues relevant to women, motherhood and living with HIV/AIDS which have occurred to individual women in different parts of the globe. The book comprises chapters written by researchers who carry out their projects in different parts of the world, and each chapter contains empirical information based on real life situations. This can be used as evidence for health care providers to implement socially and culturally appropriate services to assist individuals and groups who are living with HIV/AIDS in many societies. The book is of interest to scholars and students in the domains of anthropology, sociology, social work, nursing, public health & medicine and health professionals who have a specific interest in issues concerning women who are mothers and living with HIV/AIDS from cross-cultural perspective.
HIV Screening and Access to Care
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309212928
Book Description
Increased HIV screening may help identify more people with the disease, but there may not be enough resources to provide them with the care they need. The Institute of Medicine's Committee on HIV Screening and Access to Care concludes that more practitioners must be trained in HIV/AIDS care and treatment and their hospitals, clinics, and health departments must receive sufficient funding to meet a growing demand for care.
From Preconception to Postpartum
Author : Stavros Sifakis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9535103539
Book Description
Obstetrics is evolving rapidly and finds itself today at the forefront of numerous developments. Providing selected updates on contemporary issues of basic research and clinical practice, as well as dealing with preconception, pregnancy, labor and postpartum, the present book guides the reader through the tough and complex decisions in the clinical management. Furthermore, it deepens the scientific understanding in the pathogenetic mechanisms implicated in pregnancy and motivates further research by providing evidence of the current knowledge and future perspectives in this field. Written by an international panel of distinguished authors who have produced stimulating articles, the multidisciplinary readers will find this book a valuable tool in the understanding of the maternal, placental and fetal interactions which are crucial for a successful pregnancy outcome.
