Moving beyond the global village: Creating greater access for people living with HIV at AIDS 2012 and beyond. A workshop by the global network of people living with HIV/AIDS, international community of women living with HIV/AIDS, U.S. Positive women's network, Health GAP, HIV prevention Justice Alliance, and ACT UP Philadelphia

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Zakowicz ◽  
Olive Edwards ◽  
Julie Davids ◽  
Michael Tikili ◽  
Vanessa Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
International Community ◽  
Global Network ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Women Living With Hiv ◽  
Health Gap ◽  
Act Up ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

Implementation of HIV Prevention Interventions with People Living with HIV/AIDS in Clinical Settings: Challenges and Lessons Learned

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (S1) ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Koester ◽  
Andre Maiorana ◽  
Karen Vernon ◽  
Janet Myers ◽  
Carol Dawson Rose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Prevention Interventions ◽  
Hiv Prevention Interventions ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals The health literacy needs of women living with HIV/AIDS

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Thompson ◽  
Yolanda Havenga ◽  
Susan Naude
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Women Living With Hiv ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hiv Aids

Women in Sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately affected by the virus and constitute 60% of the total HIV/AIDS infections in this region. Current recommendations endorse the involvement of people living with HIV in the development of programmes for people living with the virus. The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the health literacy needs of women living with HIV. The research design was qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual. After women living with HIV/AIDS were sampled purposively, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight women and qualitative content analysis done. The findings revealed that the women expressed a need to increase their knowledge about HIV/AIDS. The knowledge they needed ranged from basic pathophysiology about HIV/AIDS, to the impact of HIV/AIDS on their health, to an awareness of the modes of HIV transmission and methods of protecting others from being infected. Other important health literacy needs related to self-care and correct antiretroviral use. A need for psychosocial skills was also identified in order for women to build and maintain their relationships. Recommendations were made for nursing practice, education and further research, based on these findings.

scholarly journals Gender, HIV/AIDS and Disability as Cross-Cutting Issues in Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Gender Inequity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bodily Fluids ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Women Living With Hiv ◽  
Public Health Challenges ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

Background: Gender refers the socially given attributes, roles, activities, responsibilities and needs connected to being men (masculine) and women (feminine) in a given society at a given time, and as a member of a specific community within specific society, while HIV is a virus that attacks immune cells called CD4 cells. Notably, disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders their full and effective participation in society on equal basis with others. However, the relationship between HIV and disability has not received due attention. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the cross cutting issues of gender, HIV/AIDS and disability in Ethiopia. Methods: All relevant and available documents addressed in related with gender, HIV/AIDS and disability. In the review, the obtained quantitative and qualitative data was comprehensively and comparatively analyzed using documenting analysis. Results and Conclusion: Gender inequity and inequality is a pervasive problem in Ethiopia. Still now a day, women in Ethiopia occupy low status in the society. Gender based discrimination, lack of protection of basic human rights, education and training, basic health services and employment are widespread throughout Ethiopia. The HIV/AIDS epidemic remains one of the public health challenges in Ethiopia since it was first recognized in the mid-1980s. The HIV is a life-changing illness; a person can live a long and full live with it. People transmit HIV in their bodily fluids, including: blood, semen, vaginal secretions, anal fluids and breast milk. Women represent almost half of the 40 million people worldwide living with HIV. Due to women’s greater physiological, socio-cultural and economic susceptibility to HIV infection, it is likely that the proportion of female adults and young women living with HIV will continue to rise in many regions of the world. It is estimated that 1 billion people (15% of the world’s population) have a disability. Therefore, gender and disability as cross-cutting issues in the response to HIV also calls for broader social, cultural and economic development which is person centered and disability-inclusive to addresses the unique barriers that face people with disabilities in particular women and people living with HIV.

The Micro Dynamics of Support Seeking

2013 ◽  
Vol 647 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Women Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Positive Women ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

Previous literature suggests that AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) play an important support role in the lives of impoverished women living with HIV. Less is known about the dynamics of institutional support for middle-class women living with HIV/AIDS, who are assumed to possess a broader base of resources to address their diagnosis. Using qualitative data collected from a racially and economically diverse group of HIV-positive women in Chicago, this article compares how low-income and middle-class women utilize ASOs and reveals how the women’s divergent approaches to availing themselves of institutional resources have important implications for their social and economic coping. For example, associating with ASOs can be status-improving for impoverished women and status-diminishing for middle-class women. As a result, middle-class women report a less robust network of social service providers and people living with HIV/AIDS on whom they rely for HIV-related information and social support, making them vulnerable to HIV-specific social isolation. In sum, the ways that HIV-positive women deploy institutional ties to negotiate their HIV/AIDS status differs markedly depending on socioeconomic status, suggesting that the role of class in gathering social support may be more complex than previously understood.

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