Comparing Hiv Education And Gsp As Treatment Options For Those Hiv Positive People With Depression

Ever since the first cases of what eventually came to be known as AIDS were diagnosed in the early 1980s, people with HIV/AIDS have been stigmatized. Over time, there have been many misconceptions about this disease. Even though there have been many discoveries, and treatments for HIV have improved over time, there are still many people who understand very little about this disease. This lack of understanding, along with fear, misinformation about how the disease is transmitted, and “moral” judgments made about the types of people who contract HIV, all have led to stigmatization of, and discrimination against, people who are living with HIV/AIDS. Understanding the stigmatization of people with HIV/AIDS is an important social justice issue because that stigmatization can result in people with HIV being insulted, rejected, gossiped about, excluded from family and social activities, fired, and even jailed. People with HIV are no different from people suffering from other chronic diseases. Instead of being alienated, they have a right to be treated with fairness, respect, and dignity.

Per the Biopsychosocial model, one’s health is contingent upon three factors: biological, psychological, and social/cultural. To regain optimum health in an HIV diagnosis one must identify the problems within the biological, psychological, and social perimeters.

The two most striking take-home messages from this paper are: common mental disorders should be looked at on par with other diseases associated with poverty (like tuberculosis); treatment and prevention of mental diseases should involve confronting poverty and economic development, apart from the medical interventions. The rest of the paper provides a discussion of the evidence backing these points and the ways in which they can be implemented. These conclusions and the reasons why they are remarkable are discussed in this critique.

The continuous supply in demand for newly diagnosed patients, underlying of mental health illness such as anxiety, depression and other generalized mental health disorders that may be exacerbated because of HIV/AIDS. Therefore, selective interventions would be geared at a population at risk for anxiety and depression (Roe-Sepowtiz, Bedard, & Thyer, 2005).

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) are the most widely and ongoing pandemics affecting the United States and many other parts of the world. There is still much more to be researched about HIV, as it has no known cure. Aside from finding a cure to HIV, it is equally important to look at the social and psychological impact that the HIV might have on the person infected and how these impacts differ according to gender. Studying gender can be substantial in making connections to how STDs affect individuals on the social and psychological levels. These connections that are made through examining mental illness can help in developing appropriate support groups for the groups that face the most crucial

In HIV care, ART adherence is the extent to which a patient takes their HIV medicine and coincides with a health-provider’s recommendation. The lack of adherence to antiretroviral therapy can result in increased viral resistance, insufficient viral suppression, the progression of AIDS or even death (Al-Dakkak, I, 2013). The health care needed for HIV treatment is life-long as HIV is a chronic disease that can result in many stigma-related barriers to care, and sophisticated treatment regimens which can cause drug interactions or unwanted side effects (Stricker, S. M, 2014). Depression is one side effect consistently found to be associated with non-adherence to ART. Although there are many studies suggesting depressive symptoms

Another aspect of the patient’s burden is the treatment centers’ obligation placed on the patient. Second Chances presents the idea of the ‘therapeutic clientship’. This is the model that a HIV-positive individual is a client, rather than a patient, of a treatment center because the role of the HIV positive individual consists of an exchange that occurs between them and their treatment center. In order for the client to reap the benefits that the treatment center has to offer, the individual is required to follow through on the obligations (rules) determined by the treatment center such as coming in for check-ups, adherence and practicing preventative measures. This can be a burden for patients because of the difficulties that can come

MHPP studied the best policies in Sub-Saharan Africa (WHO, 2005). This study worked to identify the steps to strengthen mental health systems in countries with lower income (WHO, 2010). Subsequent to the publication of WHO’s suggestions, there has been an acceleration of policy development in sub-Saharan Africa (WHO, 2010). The countries studied by MHPP were South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Ghana. Policies from these countries illustrate the negative impact policies can have on how the population accesses services (WHO, 2010). There were numerous barriers uncovered during the study, and it was and still evident that there are limited resources available to individuals in this

“Successful HIV prevention and treatment requires evidence-based approaches that combine biomedical strategies with behavioral interventions that are socially and culturally appropriate for the population or community being prioritized for the population or community being prioritized” (Martinez, 2016).

For nearly three decades, the world has struggled to control the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The fact is that poor understanding of the related issues of stigma, discrimination and denial has hampered national and international programs. (3,4,5) HIV/AIDS is not merely a medical problem, but a social problem as well (1). Stigma and discrimination are as central to the global AIDS challenge as the disease itself. (2)

The ARISE Coalition is seeking a volunteer policy intern to: Conduct data analyses of a number of recent reports from the DOE regarding the provision of special education services in NYC; and Assist the Coordinator of the Coalition to organize and needs applicant with Data and policy analysis Excellent oral and written communication

The mission of our project is developing a health advocacy campaign for HIV stigma reduction. In our project, we illustrate the significant impact of the stigma towards the population infected with HIV/AIDS and suggest a potential advocacy campaign to reduce the stigma and incidence of this epidemic. Through this project, I learned what a lot of people don’t understand, is that anyone can be affected at anytime if they put themselves in a situation where they could be at risk. People identified as being HIV positive, go through a tremendous amount of pressure and injustice. I just could not imagine the enormous stigmatization these individuals frequently go through. I had the urge to do something about it, to make a difference in HIV positive individuals’ lives. Lack of social and emotional support from their loved ones, only worsens their conditions resulting in mental health issues in addition to their bodily health issues.

For this research, AI will aim to empower HIV clients and counsellors as co-researchers, to contribute their expertise and experiences to propose ways of improving HIV counselling services. AI is a participative, collaborative, and a systematic approach to inquiry that seeks what is right in an organisation in order to create the desired future. It is a process and method for asking questions designed to strengthen a system’s capacity for organisational learning and creativity (Preskill & Coghlan, 2003). AI attempts to use ways of asking questions and envisioning the future in order to foster positive relationships and build on the present potential of a given person, organisation or situation (Klomp, 2012). In my application of AI, the co-researchers will share their stories of success and dreams of the future with each other. Recruited co-researchers will then combine the positive aspects of their stories which relate to HIV counselling effectiveness to develop a collective vision. This will be followed by proposing a design for achieving the collective vision. The stages of developing a collective vision and proposing a design may involve mind mapping, brainstorming, and/or role-playing or any other method as preferred by the co-researchers. At the end, the co-researchers will discuss the future of the design, especially the feasibility of their proposed design in the current programme settings. All the stages are independent of how the co-researchers decide the activity

This prevention study will work towards discovering if social changes in the lives of drug users and sex workers will act as a form of prevention in being infected with HIV. Through social programming such as, HIV education courses, economic opportunities through small businesses, and safe injection sites this study will look towards a correlation between these attributes and a decline in ‘high risk’ behaviors thus preventing the risk of HIV infection. The concept of “risk environment” plays a role in the increase in risk of infection as it is regarded as “the space, whether social or physical, in which a variety of factors exogenous to the individual interact to increase vulnerability to HIV” (Roy et. Al, 2011). Many studies of vulnerable individuals such as injection drug users, sex workers, and the homeless have shown that these factors have a significant influence on their health since they shape daily risk taking (Roy et. Al, 2011). Thus, due to said situations reports of individuals having traded sex for money, drugs, or other commodities for survival, increases HIV incidence of this high-risk behavior (Roy et Al, 2011). Therefore this study will work towards mitigating the situations that put individuals as risk of HIV infection, as a form of prevention.

Most of the depressive disorders are preventable if necessary interventions are instituted earlier in the course of the disease. Malawi has very effective measures of disease prevention ranging from good immunization services, the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT), and the prevention of diarrhoeal diseases (4). The country, through the new Health Sector Strategic Plan for 2011 to 2015 (HSSP), plans to address most of the social determinants of the