By Willo Pequegnat (auth.), Willo Pequegnat, Carl C. Bell (eds.)
Three many years into the HIV pandemic, the targets stay transparent: lessen the variety of infections,improve the healthiness results of these who're contaminated, and put off disparities in care. And one statement maintains to realize credence: households are a robust source in fighting, adapting to, and dealing with HIV. spotting their complicated function as educators, mentors, and caregivers, relations and HIV/AIDS assembles a wealth of findings from profitable prevention and intervention innovations and gives types for translating facts into powerful real-world perform. Chapters highlight the differing roles of moms and dads in prevention efforts, make clear the necessity for family/community collaborations, and consider center problems with culture,ethnicity, gender, and prognosis (e.g., minority households, youth with mental disorders). all through, probability relief and well-being advertising are proven as a doable public healthiness procedure A reference with enormous application around the future health, psychological health and wellbeing, and comparable disciplines,Family and HIV/AIDS can be a go-to source for practitioners operating with households, researchers learning at-risk populations, directors trying to create new (or assessment existing)prevention and care courses, and policymakers serious about investment such programs.
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2004). At six years, youth in the intervention condition reported significantly less substance use three and six years later. In addition, positive parental bonds reported at baseline reduced emotional distress at three years and increased positive future expectations at six years Rotheram-Borus et al. 2006). Based on the success of this initial intervention for families living with HIV, Rotheram-Borus and colleagues began a series of adaptations of this intervention for different contexts. , disclosure, social support, medication adherence, stigma, transmission behaviors), which are affected by the particularities of local culture and social context (Rotheram-Borus et al.
Lack of money also impacted the family’s capacity to provide children with ample, healthy, nutritious food. The stigma and discrimination these families and children faced only added to their difficulties. Together, these challenges affected children’s normal developmental process and school performance, and some children were not able to attend school at all (Ji et al. 2007; Lin et al. 2008). In the most recent international work on family-based secondary prevention, Rotheram-Borus and her collaborators have developed adaptations of the original family-based intervention for two different communities in South Africa.
Over the 12-month follow-up, women in the WiLLOW intervention relative to the comparison reported fewer episodes of unprotected vaginal intercourse and had a lower incidence of bacterial infections (Chlamydia and gonorrhea). Additionally, participants in the intervention reported greater HIV knowledge and condom use self-efficacy, more social network members, fewer beliefs that condoms interfere with sex, fewer partner-related barriers to condom use, and demonstrated greater skills in using condoms.