|
Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
|
Critical Delays in HIV Testing and Care
The Potential Role of Stigma
MARGARET A. CHESNEY
University of California, San Francisco
ASHLEY W. SMITH
University of Pittsburgh
When learning of a positive HIV test, individuals face a host of psychological and social stresses. HIV-related stigma is associated with psychological distress and can interfere with coping, adjustment, and management of HIV disease. Effective management of HIV disease requires timely testing for HIV infection so that persons who are infected can learn of their serostatus and gain access to care, therefore benefiting from available treatment options. This article discusses the impact that HIV-related stigma has on HIV testing and care. Specifically, problems associated with delays in testing, disclosure of seropositive status, and implications for health care are presented.
American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 42, No. 7,
1162-1174 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/00027649921954822
 CiteULike  Complore  Connotea  Del.icio.us  Digg  Reddit  Technorati  Twitter What's this?
This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|
|
|
 
A. K. Silberbogen, E. W. Ulloa, E. A. Janke, and D. L. Mori
Psychosocial Issues and Mental Health Treatment Recommendations for Patients With Hepatitis C
Psychosomatics,
March 1, 2009;
50(2):
114 - 122.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
E Tai, T Sanchez, A Lansky, K Mahle, J Heffelfinger, and K Workowski
Self-reported syphilis and gonorrhoea testing among men who have sex with men: national HIV behavioural surveillance system, 2003-5
Sex Transm Inf,
November 1, 2008;
84(6):
478 - 482.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
R Lyerla, E Gouws, and J M Garcia-Calleja
The quality of sero-surveillance in low- and middle-income countries: status and trends through 2007
Sex Transm Inf,
August 1, 2008;
84(Suppl_1):
i85 - i91.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
S. El-Gadi, A. Abudher, and M. Sammud
HIV-related knowledge and stigma among high school students in Libya
Int J STD AIDS,
March 1, 2008;
19(3):
178 - 183.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
S. A. Riggs, M. Vosvick, and S. Stallings
Attachment Style, Stigma and Psychological Distress among HIV+ Adults
J Health Psychol,
November 1, 2007;
12(6):
922 - 936.
[Abstract]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
S. D. Young, A. D. Nussbaum, and B. Monin
Potential Moral Stigma and Reactions to Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Evidence for a Disjunction Fallacy
Pers Soc Psychol Bull,
June 1, 2007;
33(6):
789 - 799.
[Abstract]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
J. T. F. Lau and H. Tsui
Comparing the magnitude of discriminatory attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS and toward people with mental illness in the Hong Kong general population
Health Educ. Res.,
February 1, 2007;
22(1):
139 - 152.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
L. O. Gostin
HIV screening in health care settings: public health and civil liberties in conflict?
JAMA,
October 25, 2006;
296(16):
2023 - 2025.
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
P. P. Mwinituo and J. E. Mill
Stigma Associated With Ghanaian Caregivers of AIDS Patients
West J Nurs Res,
June 1, 2006;
28(4):
369 - 382.
[Abstract]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
J T F Lau and H Y Tsui
Discriminatory attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS and associated factors: a population based study in the Chinese general population
Sex Transm Inf,
April 1, 2005;
81(2):
113 - 119.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
N. M. Lanouette, R. Noelson, A. Ramamonjisoa, S. Jacobson, and J. M. Jacobson
HIV- and AIDS-Related Knowledge, Awareness, and Practices in Madagascar
Am J Public Health,
June 1, 2003;
93(6):
917 - 919.
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
J. E. Mill
Shrouded in Secrecy: Breaking the News of HIV Infection to Ghanaian Women
J Transcult Nurs,
January 1, 2003;
14(1):
6 - 16.
[Abstract]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Z. Lazzarini and R. Klitzman
HIV and the Law: Integrating Law, Policy, and Social Epidemiology
J. Law Med. Ethics,
December 1, 2002;
30(4):
533 - 547.
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
G. M. Herek, J. P. Capitanio, and K. F. Widaman
HIV-Related Stigma and Knowledge in the United States: Prevalence and Trends, 1991-1999
Am J Public Health,
March 1, 2002;
92(3):
371 - 377.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
HIV-Related Knowledge and Stigma--United States, 2000
JAMA,
December 27, 2000;
284(24):
3118 - 3119.
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
G. M. HEREK
AIDS and Stigma
American Behavioral Scientist,
April 1, 1999;
42(7):
1106 - 1116.
[Abstract]
[PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
