Community voices: barriers and opportunities for programmes to successfully prevent vertical transmission of HIV identified through consultations among people living with HIV

Community voices: barriers and opportunities for programmes to successfully prevent vertical transmission of HIV identified through consultations among people living with HIV

INTRODUCTION In 2010, two global networks of people living with HIV, the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW Global) and the Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+) were invited to review a draft strategic framework for the global scale up of prevention of vertical transmission (PVT) through the primary prevention of HIV and the prevention of unintended pregnancies amo...

disclosure of hiv status and social support among people living with hiv

background disclosure of hiv is important for improving self-care behaviors, psychological well-being, commitment to the treatment, and reducing risk of transmission. one of the major benefits of disclosure is social support, which is an essential resource for effective coping with hiv infection. however, receiving any social support requires disclosing of hiv status. objectives this study aime...

Impact of Community-Based Organizations for People Living with HIV

Efforts to prevent HIV infection that target people living with HIV/AIDS: what works?

Proven prevention strategies aimed at reducing the frequency of behaviors that increase the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission and acquisition must be made available to greater numbers of persons with or at high risk for HIV infection. This article outlines programs that have effectively reduced rates of high-risk behavior and HIV transmission and suggests that it may be po...

Advance directives among people living with HIV: room for improvement.

While HIV has become a largely chronic disease, age-associated comorbidities are prevalent in people living with HIV (PLWH). Therefore, PLWH are appropriate for advance care planning (ACP) and advance directives (ADs) completion. We sought to characterize AD completion among outpatient PLWH. We conducted a retrospective chart review of PLWH who receive their routine care at the University of Wi...