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View Post: HIV/AIDS and the Natural Environment - Population Reference Bureau
25 Mar 2009
In developing countries, AIDS deaths are concentrated in prime working ages—particularly the 25-to-45 age group—and the loss of a productive household member can be especially devastating to households already living in poverty. .... Gregson et al., "Sexual Mixing Patterns and Sex Differentials"; and Robert J. Kelly et al., "Age Differences in Sexual Partners and Risk of HIV-1 Infection in Rural Uganda," Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 32, ...
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View Post: We're Not "Sufferers" or "Victims" - Oriol's POZ Blog
23 Sep 2009 by Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.  
Regan Hoffman takes pride in running POZ magazine for HIV/AIDS sufferers and sharing her own story of coping with illness. I'm sure the caption editors meant well, but we who are living with HIV/AIDS are not "sufferers" or ... AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a medical condition that compromises the human immune system, leaving the body defenseless against opportunistic infections. Some medical treatments can slow the rate at which the immune system is weakened. ...
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View Post: Denying AIDS and other oddities: New York Times Reviews AIDS ...
3 Sep 2009 by Seth Kalichman  
I know numerous people who have been living with HIV infection for 15 or 20 years. All of them have been diagnosed with AIDS. They are doing pretty well. It is not just succeess in antiretroviral medication, but also advances in preventing ... So prove you can; explain what a syndrome is, why AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency SYNDROME) is defined as such and thus why denialists are incorrect in stating that it "isn't a new disease but rather a collection of old diseases". ...
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View Post: PsycNET - Display Record
14 Jul 2008 by O'Cleirigh, Conall; Safren, Steven  
Dispositional optimism and the mechanisms by which it predicts slower disease progression in HIV: Proactive behavior, avoidant coping, and depression. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 12, 86-97. ... Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 42, 298-306. Petrie, K. J., Fontanilla, I., Thomas, M. G., Booth, R. J., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2004). Effect of written emotional expression on immune function in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection: ...
View Blog: Health Psychology - Vol 28, Iss 3 - http://content.apa.org/journals/hea

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View Post: PsycNET - Display Record
9 Jun 2008 by McCain, Nancy L.; Gray, D. Patricia; Elswick...  
The effect of group aerobic exercise and t'ai chi on functional outcomes and quality of life for persons living with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 11, 1085-1092. ... Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 33, 157-165. Hu, P. F., Hultin, L. E., Hultin, P., Hausner, M. A., Hirji, K., Jewett, A., et al. (1995). Natural killer cell immunodeficiency in HIV disease is manifest by profoundly decreased numbers of ...
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View Post: HIV-positive Survivors of Sexual Abuse Who Receive Coping ...
23 May 2008 by Chris H.  
... Neufeld S, Ghebremichael MS, Kershaw T. Effects of a coping intervention on transmission risk behavior among people living with HIV/AIDS and a history of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. ...
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View Post: Coping and Burden Among Informal HIV Caregivers -- Engler et al ...
28 Nov 2006 by Engler, P., Anderson, B., Herman, D., Bishop,...  
Abbreviations: AIDS = acquired immune deficiency syndrome; HAART = highly active antiretroviral therapy; HIPAA = Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus; PLWH = person living with HIV; ...
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View Post: OneWorld HIV/AIDS Guide
15 Apr 2008
Prevalence refers to the percentage of people aged 15-49 living with HIV/AIDS; for example, in 2007 there were 33.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS, 95% in developing countries, implying global prevalence of 0.5%. .... The virus is not eliminated by ART but the risk of onset of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (marked by the establishment of one of a range of serious illnesses associated with immune deficiency) is reduced by about 80% giving the prospect of a ...
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View Post: AIDS Research and Therapy
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View Blog: With an estimated 110000 people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (PLWHA) in 2005, Venezuela is among the countries with the highest HIV prevalence (0.7% in adults) in Latin America [1 ]. The ratio men to women gradually ..... Not-wanting-to-know their HIV-status could be related to fear for HIV-related stigma as well as to general coping strategies to deal with a possible diagnosis of a life-threatening disease.

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View Post: Introduction: Culture and Psychiatry -- Tseng and Streltzer 4 (1 ...
28 Mar 2006 by Tseng, W.-S., Streltzer, J.  
... the behavior and needs of a patient of a particular gender, sexual orientation, race, or ethnicity; about a specific disease (such as acquired immune deficiency syndrome [AIDS] or alcohol abuse); or about a certain procedure (such as abortion). ... It includes the recognition that groups of people may tend to experience different types of stress in living and to utilize relatively distinctive coping patterns. Beyond being aware of these factors, the clinician needs to ...
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