This study examines the experiences of 50 male U.S. military veterans living with HIV and their perceptions of HIV stigma within health care contexts. Participants described a variety of behaviors performed by health care personnel as stigmatizing, rangin ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm
This study explored patient perspectives on rapid and routine HIV testing among primarily minority patients in an urgent care center at an urban public hospital. The results, broken down by gender, reveal the importance of voluntary testing, counseling, a ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm
This article reports the findings when seven health care professionals, advocates, and HIV-positive women respond to the question, "What do you consider to be the most important treatment or health issues facing women with HIV today?" Their resp ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 10/18/2018 5:04pm
Acknowledging that the threat posed by HIV-positive health care providers, including surgeons, to their patients is negligible, the CDC discusses an investigation tracking the patients of an HIV-positive cardiothoracic surgeon in Israel. Cardiothoracic su ...
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This article argues that the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy must explicitly commit to a human rights framework when developing programs and policies that address the needs of women. This is particularly vital with regard to government-sanctioned stigma a ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/11/2016 12:08pm
The following summary is the abstract of the article written by the author, Margo Kaplan. This article challenges the current legislative and scholarly approaches to HIV-exposure crimes and proposes an alternative framework to address their flaws. Twenty- ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/14/2017 11:22am
This article reviews the product of focus group surveys conducted in the United Kingdom on the issue of criminal prosecutions for HIV exposure. The focus groups of individuals living with HIV were recruited to discuss their thoughts around the prosecution ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 8/16/2017 11:04am
Using data from three ongoing cohort studies of drug users in Vancouver, Canada, this article relies on a "risk environment" framework—the theory that external factors intersect to produce and reproduce HIV risk and other drug-related harms—to e ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 12/12/2018 4:26pm
This summary is taken in part from the article abstract. As structural interventions aimed at reducing new HIV infections, HIV-related criminal laws ideally would complement the HIV prevention efforts of public health professionals. The authors here concl ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/28/2017 2:09pm
Dr. Koop, who was Surgeon General during the Reagan Administration, here provides a blunt account of how the socially conservative politics of the Reagan Administration stood in the way of an appropriate response as the first signs of the HIV epidemic beg ...
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