Working with Women and AIDS

Medical, Social and Counselling Issues
Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-0-415-07658-6
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 294 g

Women now account for one third of the ten million people with HIV infection worldwide. Yet until very recently most services were geared towards men, and doctors and other professionals were often unprepared for the particular issues that women would raise. Working with Women and AIDS provides a unique and readable combination of up-to-date medical information, a discussion of social issues, personal accounts and practical advice about ways of working with women affected by HIV and AIDS. Written by people working in the field, the book explores issues such as contraception, pregnancy and prostitution, which are of central concern to those involved in the care of the increasing number of women affected by HIV infection and AIDS.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bury, Judy

McLachlan, Sheena

Morrison, Val

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I Background issues 1 Women and the AIDS epidemic: some medical facts and figures 2 Social issues: an overview 3 Reflections on women and HIV/AIDS in New York City and the United States Part II Contraception and pregnancy 4 Pregnancy, heterosexual transmission and contraception 5 Pregnancy and HIV: screening, counselling and services Part III Prostitution 6 HIV and the sex industry 7 Developing a service for prostitutes in Glasgow Part IV Education and counselling issues 8 Education and the prevention of HIV infection 9 Offering safer sex counselling to women from drug-using communities 10 Women as carers Part V Feelings and needs 11 Feelings and needs of women who are HIV positive 12 Being positive 13 Poems

Über Autor(innen)

Judy Bury is the Primary Care Facilitator (HIV/AIDS) for the Lothian Health Board; Val Morrison is a Research Psychologist in Health Psychology at the University of St Andrews; and Sheena McLachlan is a Project Worker with the Women and HIV/ AIDS Network in Lothian.