In Suturing a Torn System: How to Reduce Discrimination Against HIV-Positive Medical Care Workers, the author also makes several suggestions to improve the current legal apparatus charged with protecting HIV-Po
With home oral fluid tests, you swab your upper and lower gums and test the sample in a vial. About 1 in 12 people who are infected get a false negative from this test. If it’s positive, get a lab test to confirm. How long does it take to get HIV results? This depends on what...
or on the telephone. Conversations may be devoted to gossip, business transactions or scientific matters, but they're all characterized by the free exchange of terms among the two participants. I'll call these personal settings. Then we have what I would call nonpersonal settings. A typical ex...
What is discrimination? The two most common uses of the term discrimination dif- fer dramatically in the degree of disapproval they connote. On the one hand, the term discrimination may be used to indicate a type of distinction that invariably is or should be socially unacceptable. We refer ...
Whether female participants had shared their HIV status with sexual partners added another layer of complexity. While it might be most protective to tell participants that their partners should take HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for the duration of the study, this would also mean discl...
structural racism and discriminationThere are racial and geographic disparities for HIV in the United States; Black women have nearly 20 times the risk of White women in being infected with HIV, and lifetime HIV risk is greatest for people living in the southern United States. These disparities,...
• In the vision on responsive care some slight changes of emphasis could be found, such as a shift from regarding diversity as a 'group' characteristic to 'appreciating the diversity of individuals'. The enhanced CLAS also places more emphasis on the importance of 'patient- and family ...
As COVID-19 started sweeping across the globe in early 2020, our healthcare systems were not equipped to deal with this crisis; an unpredictable, large-scale health challenge that required ur- gent mobilisation of resources and affected the entire popula- tion. Healthcare systems had to ...
So we didn’t have any bills or rental agreements to supply when we decided to come back to apply for the partner visa a year later But, we had been together for over a year, in fact two years by this point and we could prove us being together the whole time with for example, air...
Medications:You can consider taking preventive medications, especially if you don't have HIV and plan to have bareback sex with someone who has or may have been exposed to HIV. PrEP is the use of oral or injectable medication to prevent HIV infection. When taken as prescribed, PrEP reduces ...