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Are
Pharmaceutical companies Addressing-stigma |
Recommends that
treatment efficacies be made known to the public in efforts that
model the public relations and marketing communication practices of
other healing disciplines |
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Attitudes to & management of HIV/AIDS among health workers
in Ghana: the case of Cape Coast municipality |
Health Care Workers as key players in the prevention and
management of diseases and important opinion and community leaders
have become targets for studies, more so with the outbreak of HIV.
Their perceptions, attitudes and practices have implications for the
management of diseases in both health centres and communities. |
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Cure versus care
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The term 'Quality
of Life' is often heard... and said at the Hospice to remind us of
our main aim and purpose. As most of our patients have been
diagnosed with a terminal disease, further treatment is often
inappropriate and cure is not always an option. |
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Death a Result of Insufficient Care
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Poor staffing was
the reason cited for the death of Mike Hurewitz, the living liver
donor at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, who died after a portion of
his liver was transplanted into his brother. |
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Dental Management of the HIV-Infected Patient
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Because the law
is evolving and varies in some respects from state to state,
dentists are advised to consult with their own personal attorneys
for legal advice. That said, the easiest way to avoid legal problems
- and to lessen the need for legal advice - is for dentists to treat
HIV-infected patients just like they treat their other patients.
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Dentists shun HIV
patients |
Many dentists are refusing to treat people with HIV even
though there is no risk of transmitting the disease if safety
procedures are correctly followed. Experts have warned that
continuing discrimination may force people with HIV to keep their
condition hidden - which could cause problems if dentists fail to
take adequate care.
Research conducted by BBC News Online found seven out of
30 dentists contacted refused to commit to treating a person with
HIV. |
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Discriminatory Attitudes and Practices by Health Workers toward
Patients with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria |
Nigeria has an
estimated 3.6 million people with HIV/AIDS and is home to one out of
every 11 people with HIV/AIDS worldwide. This study is the first
population-based assessment of discrimination against people living
with HIV/AIDS in the health sector of a country. The purpose of this
study was to characterize the nature and extent of discriminatory
practices and attitudes in the health sector and indicate possible
contributing factors and intervention strategies. The study involved
a cross-sectional survey of 1,021 Nigerian health-care professionals
(including 324 physicians, 541 nurses, and 133 midwives identified
by profession) in 111 health-care facilities in four Nigerian
states. |
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Discriminatory Attitudes and Practices by Health Workers toward
Patients with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria |
Nigeria has an
estimated 3.6 million people with HIV/AIDS and is home to one out of
every 11 people with HIV/AIDS worldwide. This study is the first
population-based assessment of discrimination against people living
with HIV/AIDS in the health sector of a country. The purpose of this
study was to characterize the nature and extent of discriminatory
practices and attitudes in the health sector and indicate possible
contributing factors and intervention strategies. The study involved
a cross-sectional survey of 1,021 Nigerian health-care professionals
(including 324 physicians, 541 nurses, and 133 midwives identified
by profession) in 111 health-care facilities in four Nigerian
states. |
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Do people with HIV/AIDS disclose their HIV-positivity to dentists? |
Not disclosing
one’s HIV status to the dentist, though, can have serious
consequences, such as finding oneself deprived of care adapted to
one’s state of health, whether it be because of a lack of systematic
screening for oral lesions associated with HIV infection, an error
in diagnosis, an inappropriate choice of treatment, or a risk of
secondary infection related to certain treatments. |
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Doctors' and Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes
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This report
presents responses to AIDS-related questions from a national sample
of 958 physicians and 1,520 registered nurses in 1990-91. Questions
included willingness to treat AIDS patients and whether they believe
that they were professionally obligated and should be legally
required to do so, attitudes toward homosexual men and intravenous
drug users, knowledge about HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)
transmission, perceptions of the risk of HIV contagion,
precautionary practices, trust in HIV authorities, career plans, and
attitudes toward mandatory testing and mandatory reporting.
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Guidelines for National Human Immunodeficiency Virus Case
Surveillance, Including Monitoring for Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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CDC recommends
that all states and territories conduct case surveillance for human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection as an extension of current
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) surveillance activities.
The expansion of national surveillance to include both HIV infection
and AIDS cases is a necessary response to the impact of advances in
antiretroviral therapy, the implementation of new HIV treatment
guidelines, and the increased need for epidemiologic data regarding
persons at all stages of HIV disease. |
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Healthcare
Workers |
By the end of the
20th century, 33.6 million men, women and children had
been infected with HIV. AIDS is clearly one of the greatest public
health challenges of the era and, whilst there are continuous calls
for a multisectoral response to the epidemic, there is abundant
evidence that that response must, in most instances, be led by
dedicated, committed health care workers |
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Hepatitis C virus-infected patients (41%) report communication
problems with physicians |
"...The current study demonstrated that more than one-third of
patients diagnosed with HCV infection perceived interaction
difficulties with physicians. Nearly one-half of the patients with
conflict reported being misdiagnosed or inadequately treated and
questioned the competence of their physicians. In addition, patients
perceived negative attitudes and a feeling of disrespect from their
physicians. This led to a feeling of being stigmatized, mistreated,
or abandoned in more than one-fifth of those reporting such
difficult interactions....." |
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HIV/AIDS EMPLOYMENT POLICY AND PROCEDURE |
The NHS in Wales recognises that as an employer and a public health
body it has a duty to counter discrimination and stigma against
people who are or may become HIV positive or who have AIDS. This
duty includes employees of Local Health Boards. It recognises the
need to protect patients, to retain public confidence, and to
provide safeguards for the confidentiality and employment rights of
HIV infected health care workers. |
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HIV/AIDS
and cultural issues |
Health professionals, including medical students, have to learn to
face and fight HIV and AIDS and deal with its medical and
psychosocial effects. In combating the disease and the stigma that
surrounds it, education remains the best approach. |
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JACHO: Delays in treatment
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While hospital
Emergency Departments (EDs) are the source of just over one-half of
all reported sentinel event cases of patient death or permanent
injury due to delays in treatment, |
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PHENOMENOLOGY |
Phenomenology is
a movement in philosophy that has been adapted by certain
sociologists to promote an understanding of the relationship between
states of individual consciousness and social life. As an approach
within sociology, phenomenology seeks to reveal how human awareness
is implicated in the production of social action, social situations
and social worlds |
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Philadelphia Settles Lawsuit Over Alleged Discrimination Against
HIV-Positive Man by EMTs |
The city of Philadelphia on Monday settled a civil-rights lawsuit
over alleged discrimination against an HIV-positive man who said
that city emergency medical technicians provided inappropriate care
after they leaned his HIV status |
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STIGMATIZATION AND ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE IN LATIN
AMERICA: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES |
Stigma associated with mental illness produces a series of adverse
conditions that can result in exclusion in health. From the
perspective of health systems, however, this phenomenon has not been
widely studied. Hence the purpose of this study is to establish the
importance of stigma as a barrier to access to the health services,
and to identify ways to reduce exclusion in health due to stigma
that go beyond the protection of the rights of the individual and
place it within the framework of the extension of social protection
in health. |
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The Discriminatory Attitudes of Health Workers against People Living
with HIV
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The results suggest that some health-care professionals discriminate
against and stigmatise PLWA. For instance, 9% of professionals
reported refusing to care for a patient with HIV/AIDS, and 9%
reported that they refused a patient with HIV/AIDS admission to
hospital. Two-thirds reported observing other health professionals
refusing to care for a patient with HIV/AIDS, and 43% observed
others refusing a patient with HIV/AIDS admission to hospital. |
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THE PSYCHIATRIC NOSOLOGY OF
EVERYDAY LIFE: CATEGORIES IN IMPLICIT
ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY |
A basic
assumption of constructionism is that knowledge originates in social
interchanges. That is, people's everyday knowledge about "the way
things are" is not given by the real world but is the result of an
ongoing process of communication: People speak, write, and use signs
and symbols actively and cooperatively and end up creating "reality"
out of negotiated understandings. |
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