Approches féministes des innovations médicales dans le champ du VIH/sida : une histoire à quatre temps

HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes among social work students: A comparative study

“…Such gaps in education and training may have highly deleterious effects on interventions delivered by future social workers, since the lack of knowledge and awareness of the realities of the disease frequently results in practices that stigmatise PLHIV/AIDS (Davtyan et al, 2017; Labra and Thomas, 2017). The research literature shows, indeed, that healthcare workers and institutions are not exempt from perpetuating various forms of stigmatisation and discrimination with regard to PLHIV/AIDS (Arrey et al, 2017; Pezeril, 2017; Wagner et al, 2016). This lack of knowledge, beyond the impact it may have on social work professionals’ capacity to empathise with PLHIV/AIDS, can also impact their know-how, notably in terms of recourse to inclusive practices.…”

“…This is a crucial issue. When faced with questions relating to the exclusion and stigmatisation of PLHIV/AIDS in their communities, the overwhelming majority chose not to answer, which suggests that social work students are largely unaware of the impact of discrimination on people living with the disease (Observatoire SIS Association, 2019; Pezeril, 2017; Public Health Agency of Canada, 2015). Yet interventions for PLHIV/AIDS are potentially fraught with ethical challenges, such as, for example, divulging a service recipient’s HIV positivity (Legault, 1999).…”