Delayed HIV testing and treatment seeking, and associated support needs among people living with HIV in Malaysia: a qualitative study

Sexual Health ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan C. S. Chong ◽  
Adeeba Kamarulzaman ◽  
Iskandar Azwa ◽  
Rong-Xiang Ng ◽  
Meng-Li Chong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Treatment Seeking ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Living With Hiv

The role of cannabis in pain management among people living with HIV who use drugs: A qualitative study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koharu Loulou Chayama ◽  
Jenna Valleriani ◽  
Cara Ng ◽  
Rebecca Haines‐Saah ◽  
Rielle Capler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pain Management ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Living With Hiv

scholarly journals Health care providers and HIV

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne C. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Hiv Stigma ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Related Stigma ◽  
Convergent And Divergent Validity ◽  
Living With Hiv

The current investigation seeks to examine the attitudes and beliefs of health care providers in Canada about people living with HIV. The line of research consists of three studies. Study 1 was a qualitative study conducted with a critical lens. The critical lens was used in a series of four focus groups when qualitatively soliciting opinions about the range of attitudes, behaviours and cognitions health care providers may have towards people living with HIV. Study 2 used the information gathered from Study 1 to develop a scale to assess HIV stigma in health care providers. Items were created from examples and themes found in the qualitative study, and were tested via exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, test-retest reliability analysis, and assessed for convergent and divergent validity. Study 3 examined the newly developed scale’s relationship to proposed overlapping stigmas and attitudes, and tested the adapted intersectional model of HIV-related stigma with health care trainees using the newly developed HIV stigma scale as an outcome measure. The line of research found that HIV stigma continues to be a significant problem in the health care system. The scale developed in Study 2 demonstrates that HIV stigma can be conceptualized and assessed as a tripartite model of discrimination, stereotyping and prejudice, and that this conceptualization of HIV stigma supports an intersectional model of overlapping stigmas with homophobia, racism, stigma against injection drug use and stigma against sex work.

Telephone-delivered behavioral health interventions for people living with HIV: patients’ perspectives from a qualitative study

AIDS Care ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Eugene M. Dunne ◽  
Rochelle K. Rosen ◽  
Carla Rich ◽  
Alyssa L. Norris ◽  
Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Patients ◽  
Living With Hiv

scholarly journals Trajectories of Episodic Disability in People Aging with HIV: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 232595821875921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Solomon ◽  
Kelly Kathleen O’Brien ◽  
Stephanie Nixon ◽  
Lori Letts ◽  
Larry Baxter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Longitudinal Analyses ◽  
Episodic Nature ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Over Time

People living with HIV may experience disability which is episodic in nature, characterized by periods of wellness and illness. The purpose of this longitudinal qualitative study was to understand how the episodic nature of HIV and the associated uncertainty shape the disability experience of older adults living with HIV over time. Fourteen men and 10 women who were HIV positive and over 50 years (mean age: 57 years; range: 50-73) participated in 4 interviews over 20 months. Longitudinal analyses of the transcribed interviews identified 4 phenotypes of episodic disability over time: decreasing, increasing, stable, or significant fluctuations. Although all participants experienced uncertainty, acceptance and optimism were hallmarks of those whose phenotypes were stable or improved over time. Understanding a person’s episodic trajectory may help to tailor interventions to promote stability, mitigate an upward trajectory of increasing disability, and increase the time between episodes of illness.

HIV testing of pregnant women—what is needed to protect positive women's needs and rights?

Sexual Health ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria de Bruyn ◽  
Susan Paxton
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Perinatal Transmission ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Physical Assault ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Voluntary Counselling And Testing ◽  
The Impact

With increased availability of antiretroviral therapy, there is an escalating global trend to test all pregnant women for HIV in order to stop perinatal transmission. However, insufficient consideration is given to the impact this may have on the lives of these women and their families. Many women feel pressured into HIV testing during pregnancy, do not receive adequate pre-test counselling or do not give truly informed consent. Some women who test positive experience significantly more discrimination from their partners, families and community members than HIV-positive men do. As a consequence, large numbers of women diagnosed during pregnancy do not tell their husband their status because they fear blame, abandonment or abuse, including physical assault. Women who do disclose their HIV status may face dramatic negative repercussions on their own and their children’s wellbeing. Consequently, it is unfair to test women during pregnancy solely or mainly to help prevent perinatal transmission if there are no available support services to protect the women’s rights, enable them to live healthily after an HIV-positive diagnosis and engage them in the policies and programmes that affect women’s lives. We need to create a climate that encourages HIV testing before pregnancy so that women can make informed reproductive choices. Men must be brought into the testing process through couple counselling before pregnancy and scaling up of voluntary counselling and testing programmes outside the antenatal care setting. In addition, people living with HIV have unique expertise and are very effective as peer counsellors. They have been under-utilised in the health care sector to provide support to newly-diagnosed people and to help eliminate AIDS-related shame and stigma.

scholarly journals ‘I can coexist with HIV’: a qualitative study of perceptions of HIV cure among people living with HIV in Guangzhou, China

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingyan Ma ◽  
Feng Wu ◽  
Gail Henderson ◽  
Stuart Rennie ◽  
Zachary C. Rich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Cure ◽  
Living With Hiv
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