The AIDS Health Crisis
Psychological and Social Interventions
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Epilogue
The primary focus of this book has been interventions that can prove useful in preventing AIDS and assisting persons already affected by the syndrome. The development of effective prevention and service delive...
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Psychosocial Consequences of HIV Seropositivity
Most literature on acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has focused on persons with clinical-criterion, or frank, AIDS. Given the lethality of an AIDS diagnosis, the recency of the disease, and the expon...
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Psychological Consequences of AIDS and AIDS-Related Complex
The strongest predictor of develo** an HIV-related disease is the amount of time that has elapsed since viral exposure (Moss et al., 1987). Even if HIV transmission rates could be stopped immediately or a vacci...
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Behavioral Interventions at a Community Level
Individual and small group counseling efforts are appropriate and necessary when assisting help-seeking clients who are at risk for AIDS. However, in spite of the media attention that AIDS receives and the fea...
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Psychosocial Interventions for HIV-Seropositive Persons
Asymptomatic but HIV-seropositive persons are the largest group of individuals affected by AIDS. Some HIV-infected persons may live for the rest of their lives without develo** physical symptoms but remain c...
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Psychosocial Care Needs of Persons with AIDS
Persons diagnosed with frank AIDS are not a uniform group and do not have uniform needs. Some AIDS patients are first seen in the late stages of their illnesses when death is imminent. Others are seen much ear...
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Medical Aspects of AIDS
In the spring of 1981, investigators at the UCLA Medical Center recorded five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a virulent form of pneumonia uncommon in the United States (Centers for Disease Control, 1981...
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Risk-Reduction Counseling for Individuals and Groups
Individuals are not at risk for AIDS because of who they are. Gay men do not become exposed to HIV infection because they are homosexual, but rather only if they engage in specific high-risk sexual activities or ...
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Effective Help-Providing
AIDS is a unique illness, the most frightening and serious of the sexually transmitted diseases. Since it appeared, AIDS has eclipsed much of the attention once given to such treatable “traditional” sexually t...
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Transmission and Risk Factors for AIDS
As we discussed in Chapter 1, HIV transmission occurs when the virus from an infected individual’s body fluids, primarily blood or semen, gains entry to the bloodstream of another person. Among some AIDS risk ...
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HIV Prevention among Gay and Bisexual Men in Small Cities
One consequence of the emergence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic over a decade ago among homosexually active men in the largest American cities is that most behavioral research on acquired i...
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Interventions to Reduce HIV Transmission in Homosexual Men
An understanding of any intervention to reduce the impact of an infectious disease always rests on three domains-an understanding of the biology of the infectious agent, an understanding of the epidemiology of...
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HIV Testing Rates, Testing Locations, and Healthcare Utilization among Urban African-American Men
African-American men bear a disproportionate burden of HIV infection in the United States. HIV testing is essential to ensure that HIV-infected persons are aware of their HIV-positive serostatus, can benefit f...
