Journal ArticleInternational journal of nursing studies · April 2025
IntroductionUndetectable equals untransmittable (U=U) is an education campaign promoting science that people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who maintain an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV to others. Researchers theorize ...
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Journal ArticleEval Program Plann · March 8, 2025
Death by suicide is common among people living with HIV (PLWH) in Tanzania, and is strongly influenced by HIV stigma, lack of social support, and HIV-associated stress. Screening and intervention strategies for reducing suicidality, however, are not incorp ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · March 2025
AbstractHIV-related stigma impedes HIV prevention and treatment and affects the health and quality of life of people living with HIV. Evidence-based internalized stigma reduction interventions are an identified gap in the response to HIV stigma. O ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2025
Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (BMSM) experience the highest rates of HIV acquisition annually out of any population in the United States, and young BMSM (YBMSM) are heavily impacted by this inequity as they enter adulthood. Despi ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS care · December 2024
Since its initial detection in the 1980s, AIDS has become a significant global health threat, disproportionately affecting women. Stigma constitutes the substantial barrier to accessing healthcare for women living with HIV (WLWH). This scoping review based ...
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Journal ArticleJ Assoc Nurses AIDS Care · September 2024
HIV status nondisclosure to sexual partners remains a major challenge in Tanzania's health system. This hospital-based, descriptive, cross-sectional study design recruited 380 people living with HIV (PLWH) to assess voluntary HIV status disclosure to sexua ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · September 2024
AbstractChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) system released by OpenAI on November 30th, 2022, has upended scientific and educational paradigms, reshaping the way that we think about teaching, writing, and now research. Since that time, qualit ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · September 2024
AbstractThe concept of successful living in the context of adolescents with HIV lacks clarity and is unexplored. Without a common understanding of successful living among adolescents with HIV (AWH) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), health care interven ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS and behavior · August 2024
Men living with HIV (MLWH) in sub-Saharan Africa experience poor health outcomes and increased AIDS-related deaths due to stigma influencing testing and treatment uptake and adherence. PRISMA 2020 was used to report a meta-synthesis of the stigma experienc ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · July 2024
IntroductionSystematic reviews are considered the highest level of evidence that can help guide evidence-informed decisions in nursing practice, education, and even health policy. Systematic review publications have increased from a sporadic few i ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · July 2024
There is a shortage of health-related questionnaires developed specifically for African countries' cultural contexts and local languages. Researchers have translated some tools to the target local languages. However, poor quality translation, or even high- ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · May 2024
AbstractIn Rwanda, women have higher incidence of HIV and intimate partner violence (IPV). This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of IPV among women living with HIV (WWH) in Rwanda and measure the difference in psychological outcomes, demogra ...
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Journal ArticlePLOS Glob Public Health · 2024
People living with HIV (PLWH) experience unique stressors that contribute to emotional distress, and PLWH are more than twice as likely to die by suicide when compared to the general population. In countries like Tanzania, there is a relatively high burden ...
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Journal ArticleRwanda Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences · January 1, 2024
Background HIV is a chronic disease with a potentially negative impact on quality of life. Globally, adolescents with HIV (AWH) face incredible challenges related to their growth, social interactions, and well-being. The experiences and choices of AWH in R ...
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Journal ArticlePLOS global public health · January 2024
BackgroundThe Patient and Community Perspectives Towards Tuberculosis are the most common measure of tuberculosis (TB) stigma in sub-Saharan Africa. The instrument and its sub-scales (patient and community) have been quantitatively validated but h ...
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Journal ArticleJ Acquir Immune Defic Syndr · August 15, 2023
BACKGROUND: Suicide is a leading cause of death among people living with HIV (PLWH) worldwide, with suicide deaths occurring twice as frequently among PLWH than among the general public. In Tanzania, resources for mental health care are sorely lacking, wit ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS Care · July 2023
Task-shifting is a valuable approach for redistributing clinical tasks to nonprofessional health workers and relieving human resource shortages. The Community-Based HIV Services (CBHS) program is a national cohort of volunteer community health workers (CHW ...
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Journal ArticleJ Affect Disord · May 1, 2023
BACKGROUND: Nearly 800,000 people die by suicide each year, with 77 % occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Suicide is underestimated in many African settings due to challenges in data collection, stigma, and policies that promote silence; nonethe ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · January 2023
AbstractStigma is a fundamental cause of health inequities. Guided by the Adaptive Leadership Framework for Chronic Illness (ALFCI), this descriptive qualitative study explored the challenges of stigma and disclosure experienced by women with HIV ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2023
OBJECTIVE: Suicidal ideation is strikingly common among people living with HIV (PLWH) worldwide, leading to higher burden of disease, poor HIV care engagement, and loss of life. In low- and middle-income countries such as Tanzania, mental health resources ...
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Journal ArticleGlob Ment Health (Camb) · 2023
In Tanzania, there are high rates of suicidal thoughts and behavior among people living with HIV (PLWH), yet few instruments exist for effective screening and referral. To address this gap, we developed and validated Swahili translations of the Columbia Su ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses · December 2022
ObjectiveThis article offers a recommendation on how the Pediatric Assessment Emergence Delirium Scale (PAEDS) could be implemented in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU) to improve the assessment and treatment of pediatric emergence delirium (PE ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of nursing studies · November 2022
BackgroundStigma is an underlying cause of health inequities, and a major barrier to HIV prevention, care, and treatment. Experiences of HIV stigma have been shown to reduce engagement in care across the HIV care continuum, from testing and diagno ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · July 2022
AbstractAdolescents living with HIV often experience worse medication adherence than older and younger individuals living with HIV. One factor that may mitigate poor adherence is social support. However, few studies have examined the influence of ...
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Journal ArticleBMC women's health · June 2022
BackgroundWomen living with HIV (WLWH) report low engagement in health care, missed office visits, and less engagement in the clinical encounter. Strengthening the clinical encounter for WLWH may improve health outcomes and quality of life. The Ad ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · May 2022
AbstractWomen living with HIV have a higher burden of non-AIDS comorbidities and prevalence of chronic conditions. The Adaptive Leadership Framework for Chronic Illness clarifies living with complex health challenges by delineating the technical w ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · March 2022
AbstractBlack women living with HIV (WLWH) face individual and sociostructural challenges. Despite these challenges, many exemplify remarkable levels of resilience and coping. Yet, research on resilience and coping in this population is limited. T ...
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Journal ArticleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · January 1, 2022
The development of highly effective antiretroviral treatment has significantly decreased the disease burden and increased the life expectancy of people living with HIV. As people with HIV live longer, they will require ongoing HIV specialty and primary car ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · January 2022
AbstractIntersectionality is closely intertwined with Black feminism within the context of the United States. As a result, intersectionality is often overlooked in non-Western contexts where racial homogeneity may reduce some of the impact of race ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · November 2021
AbstractSuboptimal retention in HIV care is a major driver of the global epidemic, including in sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, the national Community-Based HIV Services program integrates volunteer community health workers (CHWs) to support pati ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS and behavior · October 2021
This mixed-method study aimed to describe HIV stigmatizing attitudes, identify factors associated with stigmatizing attitudes, and explore the broader context of HIV stigma among men accompanying their pregnant female partners to antenatal care in Tanzania ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS Patient Care STDS · August 2021
In many low- and middle-income countries, community health workers (CHWs) support multiple aspects of HIV care, including patient education and counseling, adherence support, and re-engaging patients lost to care. In Tanzania, the Community-Based HIV Servi ...
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Journal ArticleBehavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.) · July 2021
The purposes of this study were to identify the sexuality-related topics parents and gay, bisexual, or queer (GBQ) adolescent males discussed at home and to describe the topics GBQ adolescent males recommend for parents to discuss with future cohorts of GB ...
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Journal ArticleAORN journal · July 2021
Preoperative readiness indicates the patient's capacity to process information, consider possible outcomes, and decide to undergo a surgical procedure. This systematic review examines how the term "patient readiness" is used in the literature and synthesiz ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · May 2021
AbstractStigma is a fundamental cause of health inequities. As such, stigma is a major barrier to HIV prevention, care, and treatment. This review will examine the concept of stigma, explicating the mechanisms of action of HIV-related stigma while ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS and behavior · January 2021
HIV testing and counseling (HTC) in antenatal care is extremely effective at identifying women living with HIV and linking them to HIV care. However, retention is suboptimal in this population. We completed qualitative interviews with 24 pregnant women liv ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · January 2021
AbstractDepression and anxiety, which may influence antiretroviral therapy (ART) medication adherence, are prevalent among persons living with HIV (PLWH) in China. This parallel two-arm clinical controlled trial aimed to examine the effects of a n ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of affective disorders · December 2020
BackgroundChinese persons living with HIV (PLWH) suffer from prevalent mental health issues. We aimed to develop a tailored cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), test its feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects (depression, anxiety, and ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of advanced nursing · June 2020
AimsTo determine the mediating role of surgical readiness on patient characteristics (surgical risk, type of surgery, pre-operative anxiety, and health literacy) and its influence on surgical outcomes (pain, postoperative complications, and surgic ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS and behavior · January 2020
Young Black men who have sex with men's (YBMSM) attitudes and personal beliefs about themselves and their risk for HIV can be modified as a result of experiences with racism and HIV stigma. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 25 HIV-negativ ...
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Journal ArticleJ Adolesc Res · September 1, 2019
Sex communication interventions facilitate positive sexual health outcomes with heterosexual adolescents. The same has yet to be established for male youth with same-sex attractions, behaviors, and identities. Our study describes the experiences of gay, bi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · July 2019
BackgroundWomen represent 23% of all Americans living with HIV. By 2020, more than 70% of Americans living with HIV are expected to be 50 years and older.SettingThis study was conducted in the Southern United States-a geographic region wi ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · January 2019
The concept of successful aging was recognized only recently by HIV researchers because people living with HIV (PLWH) in the early epidemic were not expected to survive. With the introduction of antiretrovirals that block viral replication, PLWH are now ag ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Health Policy Manag · November 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: The Rwanda Human Resources for Health Program (HRH Program) is a 7-year (2012-2019) health professional training initiative led by the Government of Rwanda with the goals of training a large, diverse, and competent health workforce and strength ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing · March 2018
Public and private higher education funding models are shifting from traditional funding of schools and departments to a model in which schools increasingly rely on revenue other than tuition to fulfill and supplement activities related to their core missi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society · March 2018
Global disparities in the quantity, distribution, and skills of health workers worldwide pose a threat to attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and deepens already existing global health inequities. Rwanda and other low-resource countries ...
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Chapter · August 28, 2017
Provides one-of-a-kind, in-depth guidance for improving effectiveness in the classroom This is the only book for new and midcareer faculty that delivers practical, evidence-based strategies for physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and ... ...
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Journal ArticleCrit Care Nurse · October 2016
HIV infection has progressed from an acute, terminal disease to a chronic illness with cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death among persons living with HIV. As persons living with HIV infection continue to become older, traditional risk facto ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing · September 2016
As the world around us evolves and as society becomes increasingly diverse, the demographics of the health professions workforce, including nursing, have been slow to change. Even with influential public relations campaigns sponsored by Johnson & Johnson ( ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · May 2016
Responding to a national need for a new workforce of HIV care providers as the first generation of providers decrease their practices or retire, the Duke University School of Nursing, with funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration, deve ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · May 2016
In the United States, only 30% of HIV-infected persons are diagnosed, engaged in care, provided antiretroviral therapy, and virologically suppressed. Competent HIV care providers are needed to achieve optimal clinical outcomes for all people living with HI ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · March 2016
Our quality improvement project evaluated whether testing for syphilis every 3 to 6 months with routine HIV laboratory monitoring had an effect on early detection of asymptomatic syphilis infection/re-infection in HIV-infected men who have sex with men. Re ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services · December 2015
One in 139 women will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime. Thirty-four years into the epidemic, stigma remains part of the trajectory of the disease process for all individuals with HIV. Stigma associated with HIV makes it difficult for women to access ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS and behavior · October 2015
As with many infectious diseases throughout history, stigma is a part of the trajectory of the HIV disease process. HIV-related stigma impedes women from being tested for HIV. Once infected, HIV-related stigma hinders women from disclosing their HIV status ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · January 2015
HIV-related stigma is one of the greatest barriers to preventing and ending the HIV epidemic. The purpose of our study was to examine HIV-related stigma among urban adults voluntarily seeking HIV-oriented primary medical care and at risk for dropping out a ...
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Journal ArticleANS. Advances in nursing science · October 2014
Heightened awareness of the social determinants of health by health scientists and clinicians has failed to translate into significant progress in the amelioration of those social determinants contributing to health inequities. The purpose of this article ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS patient care and STDs · September 2014
The aim of this study was to compare outcomes (self-esteem, coping self-efficacy, and internalized stigma) across time in HIV-infected women living in the Deep South who received a stigma reduction intervention (n=51) with those of a control group (n=49) w ...
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Journal ArticleCrit Care Nurse · April 2013
According to estimates, 1.2 million Americans are infected with human immuno deficiency virus (HIV). Because of antiretroviral therapy, persons who have HIV infection or have progressed to AIDS are living longer. As a result, the likelihood that they will ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience nursing : journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses · February 2013
This article provides a clinical nursing update on major neurological complications associated with HIV and AIDS. Life expectancy for those with AIDS has increased as a consequence of antiretroviral therapy, and thus, neurological complications remain a cl ...
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Journal ArticleJ Nurs Care Qual · 2013
The Care Journal is a tool developed by the Josie King Foundation to promote interactive exchange among providers and patients/families. The Care Journal was implemented in a pediatric intensive care unit, and surveys were administered to assess perception ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · January 2013
Depressive symptoms and depression are prevalent among persons living with HIV (PLWH). Depression among PLWH is associated with a lower quality of life, reduced adherence to antiretroviral treatment, poorer self-care, worsened treatment outcomes, greater i ...
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Journal ArticleCreative nursing · January 2012
Numerous expert sources have reported a reduction in positions available for new graduate nurses, largely because of general economic conditions, although there are conflicting data and significant geographic variances. Nursing education, nursing practice, ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · January 2011
With nearly 33 million global citizens living with HIV or AIDS, the need for a highly qualified, competent nursing workforce is critical. With the recent increase in global funding to expand access to antiretroviral therapy, there have been considerable ef ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · January 2011
With nearly 33 million global citizens living with HIV or AIDS, the need for a highly qualified, competent nursing workforce is critical. With the recent increase in global funding to expand access to antiretroviral therapy, there have been considerable ef ...
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Journal ArticleNursing outlook · July 2010
The purpose of this study was to identify factors that contribute to the retention of United States Navy Nurse Corps reservists called to duty in 2003. Data were collected by questionnaires based on Price and Mueller's causal model of voluntary turnover an ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of nursing studies · November 2009
BackgroundThe ethical issues associated with HIV and AIDS are challenging and complex because of beliefs about HIV and AIDS, stigma surrounding the epidemic, lack of knowledge, and fear. Both South Africa and the United States have a nursing code ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education · June 2009
Using grounded theory, 18 interviews with HIV-positive urban men were conducted to understand their sexual relationships. Analysis of the verbatim transcripts revealed that regardless of age, sexual orientation or race/ethnicity, the participants were "mak ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS patient care and STDs · May 2009
A first step in ensuring that HIV-infected persons practice the safer sexual behaviors that reduce disease transmission is to make certain that they receive accurate information about the relationship between sexual risk behaviors and HIV transmission. Hea ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health communication · April 2008
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This article examines health literacy among a group a HIV-positive persons at risk for receiving suboptimal health care due to histories of substance abuse, mental illness, incarceration, and unstable housing or homelessness. Participants receiving service ...
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Journal ArticleEthnicity & disease · January 2008
US Latino adults are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic and experience disparities in access to HIV care. However, relatively little is known about how acculturation affects perceived barriers to engagement in care among Latinos. This article ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS patient care and STDs · March 2007
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To benefit from HIV treatment advances individuals must utilize ambulatory primary care services. Few studies focus on marginalized populations, which tend to have poor health care utilization patterns. This study examined factors associated with health ca ...
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Journal ArticleAIDS patient care and STDs · January 2007
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Through its Targeted HIV Outreach and Intervention Model Development (Outreach Initiative), the Health Resources and Services Administration's Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) program funded ten demonstration sites to implement and evaluate ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing · September 2006
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A major indicator of baccalaureate nursing program effectiveness is the pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examinations, Registered Nurse (NCLEX-RN) among first-time candidates. This article highlights the scope, instructional methods, and outcome ...
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Journal ArticleMCN. The American journal of maternal child nursing · July 2006
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This article describes current nursing practice for pregnant women with HIV. In the United States, the number of new cases of HIV continues to rise in women of childbearing age. Women often learn of their HIV status when a pregnancy involves them in the he ...
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Chapter · 2006
This book, based on recent research, reveals the complex issues of identification and intervention with survivors of intimate partner abuse within in the health system. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Multicultural Nursing and Health · December 2005
OBJECTIVES: HIV-related stigma (HRS) is rooted in the sociocultural constructions associated with infectious diseases, particularly in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The purpose of this study was to determine the level and impact of HRS in a culturally diverse sam ...
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Journal ArticleANS. Advances in nursing science · July 2005
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Despite advances in the medical treatment of HIV disease, marginalized populations continue to shoulder a disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS-related morbidity and mortality. This study explored the process by which clients at HIV-oriented primary care cli ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · March 2004
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The highest absolute number of new HIV infections and AIDS cases still occur among men who have sex with men (MSM). Numerous theoretical approaches have been used to understand HIV risk behaviors among MSM; however, no theoretical model examines sexual ris ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · December 2002
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ObjectivesThis study measured the prevalence of battering victimization (i.e., experience of psychological/symbolic, physical, and sexual battering) among men who have sex with men (MSM) and identified characteristics of these men.Methods ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · September 2001
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The experience of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) among men, particularly men who have sex with men (MSM), is poorly understood. Consequently, the long-term psychological and behavioral consequences of this phenomenon are unclear. This article provides a crit ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · May 2001
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Recent empirical evidence demonstrates the relationship between HIV and battering victimization in men who have sex with men (MSM). Although there is an abundance of literature examining domestic violence among heterosexual couples, there is minimal empiri ...
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Journal ArticleHolistic nursing practice · October 1997
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Although numerous supportive therapies are available to challenge human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), no cure exists. Those with HIV disease and its sequelae must confront the reality of living with a c ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · September 1996
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Despite great advances and a significant understanding of HIV pathogenesis, no curative treatment modality currently exists. Since baboon bone marrow cells (BBMC) are believed to be resistant to the human immunodeficiency virus, researchers have recently t ...
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Journal ArticleCritical care nursing quarterly · November 1995
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In today's cost-conscious, changing health care environment, health care agencies must identify and implement strategies to promote fiscal responsibility while maintaining employee satisfaction and retention. The cost to recruit professional nurses is high ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of cardiovascular nursing · January 1993
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Illegal drug use predisposes the intravenous drug abuser to bacterial endocarditis, primarily of the tricuspid valve. The prevalence and clinical symptomatology of tricuspid valve endocarditis is reviewed, as are surgical options available to these patient ...
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Journal ArticleGeriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) · November 1991
Coronary artery bypass surgery often marks the end of sexual gratification in the elderly. Learn why this need not be the case. ...
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