Download or read book Couples of Mixed HIV Status written by R Dennis Shelby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examine the unique emotional challenges and issues that face couples of mixed HIV status today! Previous books on this subject—mostly written in the days when HIV/AIDS was considered a fatal rather than a chronic disease—focused on end-of-life issues. However, Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical Issues and Interventions addresses the unique emotional challenges facing today’s couples of mixed HIV status and provides a conceptual framework for assessment and intervention. The book offers examples of how to apply emotionally focused couple therapy to help them work through issues including disclosure, the fear of HIV transmission, shifts in emotional intimacy, family planning, betrayal, mistrust, and uncertainty. This unique work, its knowledge base, and the interventions you'll find inside, are applicable to any practitioner who provides couple and family therapy—as well as any practitioner who counsels around issues of chronic illness. Couples of Mixed HIV Status provides therapists with a range of theoretical approaches to help mixed HIV status couples deal with their issues and concerns. It includes applications of couple therapy approaches that have proved to be particularly effective as well as case studies that demonstrate how different relationship variables may affect therapy. The book presents the findings of a research study involving 44 mixed HIV status couples in the Northeast and is generously illustrated with tables that make complex research results easy to access and understand. Topics covered in Couples of Mixed HIV Status include: various approaches to couples therapy the historical context of HIV/AIDS HIV transmission family planning and HIV/AIDS emotionally focused couple therapy disclosure issues attachment theory and much more! Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical Issues and Interventions is a valuable resource for therapists and other mental health counselors working with today’s couples of mixed HIV status as well as for students of counseling and health related services. Readers who may be in a mixed HIV status relationship or those who are friends and family members of couples living with HIV will also find this book helpful.
Download or read book Cross Cultural Perspectives on Couples with Mixed HIV Status Beyond Positive Negative written by Asha Persson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume presents a detailed portrait of couples living with mixed HIV status, where one partner is HIV-positive and the other negative. Readers will come to understand the various and complex ways in which these mixed-status, or serodiscordant couples build a life together within the shadow of HIV-related stigma. Spanning the globe, coverage explores serodiscordance as a negotiated practice and process, inseparable from the social context in which it is situated. The book shows how couples draw on diverse and sometimes contradictory cultural discourses of medicine, romance, and “normality” to make sense of and manage their mixed HIV status and any perceived risks, not uncommonly in ways that depart from prevailing HIV prevention messages. Throughout, compelling personal stories accompany the empirical research, sharing the firsthand experiences of men and women in serodiscordant relationships. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines and geographical regions, this book contributes important insights for future HIV health promotion as well as offers new knowledge to scholarship on the cultural intersections of illness and intimacy. It will appeal to a broad audience working across the fields of HIV, health, gender, sexuality, development, and human rights.
Download or read book Couples of Mixed HIV Status written by R Dennis Shelby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examine the unique emotional challenges and issues that face couples of mixed HIV status today! Previous books on this subject—mostly written in the days when HIV/AIDS was considered a fatal rather than a chronic disease—focused on end-of-life issues. However, Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical Issues and Interventions addresses the unique emotional challenges facing today’s couples of mixed HIV status and provides a conceptual framework for assessment and intervention. The book offers examples of how to apply emotionally focused couple therapy to help them work through issues including disclosure, the fear of HIV transmission, shifts in emotional intimacy, family planning, betrayal, mistrust, and uncertainty. This unique work, its knowledge base, and the interventions you'll find inside, are applicable to any practitioner who provides couple and family therapy—as well as any practitioner who counsels around issues of chronic illness. Couples of Mixed HIV Status provides therapists with a range of theoretical approaches to help mixed HIV status couples deal with their issues and concerns. It includes applications of couple therapy approaches that have proved to be particularly effective as well as case studies that demonstrate how different relationship variables may affect therapy. The book presents the findings of a research study involving 44 mixed HIV status couples in the Northeast and is generously illustrated with tables that make complex research results easy to access and understand. Topics covered in Couples of Mixed HIV Status include: various approaches to couples therapy the historical context of HIV/AIDS HIV transmission family planning and HIV/AIDS emotionally focused couple therapy disclosure issues attachment theory and much more! Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical Issues and Interventions is a valuable resource for therapists and other mental health counselors working with today’s couples of mixed HIV status as well as for students of counseling and health related services. Readers who may be in a mixed HIV status relationship or those who are friends and family members of couples living with HIV will also find this book helpful.
Download or read book The Impact of Disclosure of Mixed HIV Status on Social Support Relationship Satisfaction and Psychological Distress for Male Mixed Status Couples written by Jason Greenberg and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discordant Couples written by Damien de Walque and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most analyses of the determinants of HIV infection are performed at the individual level. The recent Demographic and Health Surveys which include results from HIV tests allow studying HIV infection at the level of the cohabiting couple. The paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two surprising findings about the dynamics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which have important implications for policy. First, at least two-thirds of the infected couples are discordant couples, that is, couples where only one of the two partners is infected. This implies that there is scope for prevention efforts among couples. Second, between 30 and 40 percent of the infected couples are couples where the female partner only is infected. This is at odds with levels of self-reported marital infidelity by females and with the common perception that unfaithful males are the main link between high risk groups and the general population. This study investigates and confirms the robustness of these findings. For example, even among couples where the woman has been in only one union for 10 years or more, the fraction of couples where only the female partner is infected remains high. These results suggest that extramarital sexual activity among cohabiting women, whatever its causes, is a substantial source of vulnerability to HIV that should be, as much as male infidelity, targeted by prevention efforts. Moreover, this paper uncovers several inconsistencies between the sexual behaviors reported by male and female partners, suggesting that as much as possible, prevention policies should rely on evidence including objectively measured HIV status. "--World Bank web site
Download or read book Guidance on Couples HIV Testing and Counselling Including Antiretroviral Therapy for Treatment and Prevention in Serodiscordant Couples written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New WHO guidelines recommend offering HIV testing and counselling to couples, wherever HIV testing and counselling is available, including in antenatal clinics. For couples where only one partner is HIV positive, the guidelines recommend offering antiretroviral therapy to the HIV positive partner, regardless of his/her own immune status (CD4 count), to reduce the likelihood of HIV transmission to the HIV negative partner. Today, only 40% of people with HIV globally know their HIV status. Up to 50% of HIV-positive people in on-going relationships have HIV-negative partners (i.e. they are in serodiscordant relationships). Of those HIV-positive individuals who know their status, many have not disclosed their HIV status to their partners, nor do they know their partners' HIV status. Consequently, a significant number of new infections occur within serodiscordant couples. CHTC offers couples the opportunity to test, receive their results and mutually disclose their status in an environment where support is provided by a counsellor/health worker. A range of prevention, treatment and support options can then be discussed and decided upon together, depending on the status of each partner. Recent evidence confirms the benefit of early ART for people with a CD4 count above 350 cells/μL in preventing transmission to HIV-negative partners. In order to benefit from such opportunities, couples should be supported to test together and disclose their status to each other and access prevention, care and treatment services."--Publisher description.
Download or read book Gay Relationships and HIV written by Robert 'Bart' Haines Magee and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Little is currently known about the interaction between HIV status, HIV symptoms, and the relationship variables of gay male couples. Questionnaire data on 194 gay men of differing HIV status was collected as part of the AIDS Behavioral Research Project (ABRP), an ongoing longitudinal survey of gay men in San Francisco. An analysis of covariance of relationship information from the 1991 wave of data collection found differences in satisfaction with sex and sexual behavior depending on respondent and partner HIV status (HIV- positive concordant, mixed status, HIV-negative concordant, and untested/unknown status). In men in relationships where at least one partner was HIV-positive, partner support predicted relationship satisfaction, whereas partner symptoms, and partner conflict were negatively associated with relationship satisfaction. In these HIV-positive status relationships, relationship satisfaction was negatively associated with both subjective depression, and anger/hostility. The results are discussed in light of ongoing efforts to understand the psychosocial impact of HIV disease on gay men and their relationships, the ability of gay relationships to buffer psychological distress, and also in terms of implications for clinical intervention with gay male couples."--Pages 1-2.
Download or read book HIV Status in Discordant Couples in Sub Saharan Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AIDS and Mental Health Practice written by R Dennis Shelby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing contemporary issues faced by individuals with HIV/AIDS, AIDS and Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy Issues provides psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors with research and case studies that offers models for effective clinical practice at this stage of the epidemic. Each chapter is written by experts in the field and demonstrates ways to provide better services to different populations, many of whom are ignored in AIDS and mental health literature. As a result, this book will provide professionals in the field and students in training with the most current practice information about mental health practice and HIV/AIDS. AIDS and Mental Health Practice will help you understand the diverse needs of people with HIV/AIDS and organize services to assist these populations. AIDS and Mental Health Practice discusses issues that affect several different groups in order to help you understand the unique situations of your clients. You will learn how to design treatments that will be most beneficial to Latinos, intravenous drug users, orphaned children, African Americans, HIV-negative gay men, HIV nonprogressors, HIV-positive transsexuals, end-stage AIDS clients, couples of mixed HIV status, and individuals suffering from HIV-associated Cognitive Motor Disorder. This book provides you with approaches that will improve services for these populations, including: talking to patients about the positive and negative aspects of taking protease inhibitors and discussing their feelings of hope, skepticism, and fear of being disappointed by the treatment preparing clients to go back to work by exploring the meaning of work and referring them to vocational services if necessary providing support groups for people living with AIDS (PLWAs), their loved ones, their families, and individuals in bereavement as a result of an AIDS-related death organizing a HIV-negative gay men’s support group that uses exercises and homework to focus on the members’ambivalent connection to the AIDS community, how they remain HIV negative, and ways to deal with separation and grief issues assessing and/or correcting underlying racism in AIDS service organizations The prevention and intervention strategies in Mental Health and AIDS Practice will help you address and treat mental health issues associated with HIV/AIDS and offer clients more effective and relevant services.
Download or read book One One written by Gerard Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John and Noel are in a panic. The condom broke during sex, and John happens to have AIDS. Joanne breaks down when the counselor asks about her HIV-positive husband Robert. In their six-year marriage, Joanne has been tested twice a year, each time more stressful than the last. ONE + ONE takes an unflinching look at the lives of these two couples of mixed HIV status-one straight, one gay-as they navigate the physical and emotional minefield inherent in every serodiscordant relationship. This poignant film gives insights to how serodiscordant couples cope with the difficult task of living with HIV on a daily basis, and the deep bond they share because of it.
Download or read book Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa written by National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Data and Research Priorities for Arresting AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.
Download or read book Individual and Couple level Risk Factors Associated with HIV Transmission Family Planning and ART Initiation in an Open Cohort of Heterosexual HIV 1 Serodiscordant Couples in Rwanda written by Megan Claire Dillavou and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the factors of heterosexual HIV-1 serodiscordant couples that lead to risky behaviors for HIV transmission are essential in controlling the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Predictors of HIV transmission within stable discordant couples and trends in family planning over time, as well as predictors of ART initiation provide important information for future studies and prevention and treatment program development. This dissertation evaluates these aspects of HIV-1 serodiscordant couple transmission in an ART naive 10-year observational cohort in Kigali, Rwanda. The first study evaluated the incident HIV-1 infections and the predictors of HIV-1 transmission in ART na?ve HIV-1 heterosexual serodiscordant couples. Eighty-three partner linked incident HIV-1 infections occurred in the cohort with 37 in women (IR=2.2/100 CY; 95%CI: 1.53.299) and 46 in men (IR=2.49/100 CY; 95%CI: 1.83-3.33). In the adjusted final model of linked HIV infection in females, baseline VL (aHR 2.33; 95%CI: 1.28-4.24), female genital inflammation (cHR 4.77; 95%CI: 1.72-13.21), and having unprotected sex with study partner since last visit (cHR 3.29; 95%CI: 1.27-8.51) were significant predictors. Predictors of linked incident HIV-1 infection in males included baseline VL (aHR 2.14; 95%CI: 1.50-3.07), female genital inflammation (aHR 3.91; 95%CI: 1.71-8.94), any unprotected sex with study partner since previous visit (aHR 3.56; 95%CI: 1.48-8.56), and presence of sperm on a wet prep (aHR 3.35; 95%CI: 0.99-11.36). These findings support the need to include sexual partners in the assessment of risk and target risk reduction strategies. The second study described pregnancy and analyzed predictors of women ever using hormonal contraception (HC) by HIV status. Overall pregnancy incidence rate was 12.7/100 PY (95%CI: 11.3-14.1) while in M-F+ couples it was 13.2/100 PY (95%CI: 11.3-15.3) and 12.1/100 PY (95%CI: 10.2-14.1) in M+F- couples. 34% of HIV positive women, 26% of HIV- women who did not seroconvert, and 25% of HIV- women who seroconverted had used hormonal contraception at point during the study. In adjusted analyses, being younger (aRR 0.97; 95%CI: 0.95-0.99), ability to read Kinyarwandan easily (aRR 1.28; 95%CI: 1.06-1.55), and no STI in the past year (aRR 0.80; 95%CI: 0.67-0.95) was associated with ever HC use in HIV+ women. Among HIV negative women who did not seroconvert, HC ever use was associated with younger age (aRR 0.98; 95%CI: 0.96-1.0) and not being pregnant at baseline (aRR 0.72; 95%CI: 0.55-0.94). Across HIV groups, injectable methods were the most frequently used type of hormonal contraception at last visit and during most of study follow-up. The overall low uptake of hormonal contraception and high pregnancy rates in both HIV + and HIV- women suggest the need for more effective and widely accessible safer conception methods. The third study evaluated predictors of time to ART initiation, stratified by gender of seropositive partner. Of the 1837 couples (882 M+F- / 955 M-F+), 30% had an HIV positive partner initiate ART. Of those, 39% had a seropositive male partner (M+F-) and 61% had a seropositive female partner (M-F+). Shorter time to ART initiation in M+F- couples was predicted by baseline viral load (aHR1.54; 95%CI:1.01-2.34), while both baseline viral load (aHR1.43; 95%CI:1.02-2.02) and baseline WHO stage IV (aHR 4.85; 95%CI:1.45-16.26) predicted earlier time to ART initiation in M-F+ couples. As expected, clinical values were the main predictors of time to ART initiation. In conclusion, partner and partnership characteristics play an important in risk of HIV-1 acquisition and transmission in heterosexual serodiscordant couples. Family planning and fertility desires are particularly complex and important risk factors that may change over time for serodiscordant couples. These findings can help improve the targeted HIV prevention, safer conception and family planning services, and ART treatment programs focusing on sustained viral load suppression among heterosexual serodiscordant couples in Africa.
Download or read book Psychotherapy And AIDS written by Lucy A. Wicks and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychological treatments seek to support changes in patients's lives. Normally, they get better and move on with their lives. The time line is often different in dealing with the medically ill, including those with HIV. While making progress psychologically, patients may become more physically dependent. Divided into 3 parts, this book presents information and clinical material in a range of topics to support psychologically informed treatment of individuals who are HIV-positive. Each chapter proposes techniques and methods to address different concerns commonly encountered with this population. In addition, case studies are provided throughout.
Download or read book HIV Vaccines and Cure written by Linqi Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive review of the major barriers to HIV cure and vaccine. It covers the fundamental virology and immunology leading to HIV transmission, protection from infection and long term HIV persistence on antiretroviral therapy. In addition, strategies being tested to eliminate persistent HIV and the rational design of vaccines to induce protective immunity are covered. This book also discusses the challenges related to the design of clinical trials for testing the safety and efficacy of these innovative approaches. This book will provide a systematic overview and also discuss controversial issues for researchers in virology and immunology, as well as practicing physicians, and scientists in the pharmaceutical industry.
Download or read book HIV Negative written by William I. Johnston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "HIV-Negative opens up a much-needed discussion about the position of the uninfected in a community devastated and alienated by plague. It is compelling reading for those who are considering HIV testing, who have tested HIV-negative, or who are in positive-negative relationships, and it is a valuable resource for counselors, social workers, and therapists interested in the mental health of gay men, and for researchers and community activists interested in HIV-prevention issues." "The voices in this book raise questions that resonate within all of us: How do we experience and define the meanings of sexuality, vulnerability, mortality, and responsibility in the age of AIDS?"--Jacket
Download or read book Love Money and HIV written by Sanyu A. Mojola and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do modern women in developing countries experience sexuality and love? Drawing on a rich array of interview, ethnographic, and survey data from her native country of Kenya, Sanyu A. Mojola examines how young African women, who suffer disproportionate rates of HIV infection compared to young African men, navigate their relationships, schooling, employment, and finances in the context of economic inequality and a devastating HIV epidemic. Writing from a unique outsider-insider perspective, Mojola argues that the entanglement of love, money, and the transformation of girls into Òconsuming womenÓ lies at the heart of womenÕs coming-of-age and health crises. At once engaging and compassionate, this text is an incisive analysis of gender, sexuality, and health in Africa.
Download or read book HIV Status and Cohabitation in Sub Saharan Africa written by Thomas W. Pullum and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
