Experiences of new diagnoses among HIV-positive persons: implications for public health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ready acceptance of experiences of new diagnoses among HIV-positive persons is a known personal and public health safety-net. Its beneficial effects include prompt commencement and sustenance of HIV-positive treatment and care, better management of transmission risk, and disclosure of the HIV-positive status to significant others. Yet, no known study has explored this topic in Ghana; despite Ghana's generalised HIV/AIDS infection rate. Existing studies have illuminated the effects of such reactions on affected significant others; not the infected.

Methods

This paper studied qualitatively the experiences of new diagnoses among 26 persons living with HIV/AIDS. Sample selection was random, from two hospitals in a district in Ghana heavily affected by HIV/AIDS. The pa

SUBMITTER: Owusu AY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8932052 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature