Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: UMLS:C0277787 (stigma)
 13,352 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

In Africa the AIDS epidemic is primarily spread by heterosexual sexual contact. According to WHO estimates 400,000 Africans contracted AIDS in the last 10 years and approximately 3,500,000 equally divided among both sexes are infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). About 600,000 of them are children 5. Child mortality is projected to increase by 50% in the next 10 years attributable to a further spread of HIV among women who will contaminate their children. Currently, there are more than 1 million African children 10 who are not infected but whose mothers are. There are ominous implications both for women in the traditional role and for working African women on the infrastructure in addition to the anxiety of contracting HIV, the impact on future pregnancies, and the stigma of AIDS victims who are ostracized from society. The case of a woman whose husband recently died of AIDS and who is suffering from ARC (AID-related complex) is detailed. Her twin daughters aged almost 2 are also seropositive. At a clinic an AIDS worker informed her that she and her daughters had 1 or 2 more years to live. AIDS has placed a double burden on the shoulders of African women: to prevent AIDS as care providers and to help the victims, especially because governments and organizations do not provide much support. Committed women who organize to overcome social injustice intrinsic in the suffering of AIDS victims can develop the fighting spirit to better their lives.
 ...
PMID:[The consequences of AIDS for women and children in Africa]. 206 27

The case management program at APLA hastens the receipt of medical, psychological, and social services to persons diagnosed with AIDS and ARC. The design accommodates the unique problems encountered by this client population that are created largely by the stigma and fear associated with HIV infection in the United States. As a community-based AIDS agency, APLA expediently uses the services of professional and paraprofessional volunteers to extend the capacity of case management staff. The complexity of care associated with HIV infection has demanded the development of a sophisticated information management system to improve the communications and the efficiency of the case management program.
 ...
PMID:Case management in a community-based AIDS agency. 249 27

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the psychiatric aspects of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and sexually transmitted disease (STD) under the following subheadings: AIDS-related complex, AIDS hypochondriasis, AIDS dementia complex, AIDS and increased risk of suicide, psychiatric aspects of STD, and implications for the management of patients. The psychiatric aspects of HIV infection and AIDS include problems of adjustment to a diagnosis with a stigma and the threat of death, reactive depression and potential risk of suicide, personality disorder, AIDS-related complex (ARC), and AIDS-related dementia. The paper gives an overview of clinical, neuropathological and psychopathological experience in other countries with relevant examples from Papua New Guinea if available. STDs are mentioned because HIV transmission in Papua New Guinea is mostly by heterosexual means. The paper concludes by emphasizing the psychiatric principles of management of HIV-infected/AIDS/STD patients, which include pharmacotherapy but are always based on supportive psychotherapy and counselling.
 ...
PMID:Psychiatric aspects of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and sexually transmitted disease (STD): an overview. 805 45