HIV as the Great Magnifier of Maladies: Challenges for Prevention and Compassionate Care

Cohen, Mary Ann; Alfonso, César A.; Tavakkoli, Mohammad; Makurumidze, Getrude

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70554-5_14

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“…Psychotherapy can be a helpful therapeutic intervention for processing and addressing the psychological distress of living with a chronic systemic medical illness, such as HIV and AIDS. The emotional distress of living with HIV and AIDS can be viewed as secondary to biological aspects of the disease as well as to more direct biopsychosocial factors [1][2][3][4][5][6]31]. The factors involved with distress in persons with HIV are summarized in Table 1 multidisciplinary approach that is highly dependent on available resources.…”

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“…Mood-stabilizing anticonvulsants and some antidepressants have pharmacokinetic properties that may interfere with tolerable and effective antiretroviral therapy. When choosing psychotropic medications, clinicians need to be aware of side effects, toxicities, and potential drug-drug and drug-illness interactions [1][2][3][4][5][6].…”

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“…Question 2 Third distractor (d) Most people with HIV infection are aware that they are infected. Question 3: Stem [1,2,37] 3. Which of the following is most accurate regarding the relationship between HIV/AIDS and psychiatric disorders?…”

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“…HIV/AIDS psychiatry is defined as the sub-subspecialty of consultation-liaison psychiatry that focuses on prevention, care, and treatment of HIV and AIDS; psychiatric aspects of risk behaviors and their antecedents; psychiatric manifestations of HIV and its stigma; psychological consequences of HIV infection and its multimorbidities and their impact on persons infected with and affected by HIV; and the imperative for an integrated biopsychosociocultural approach to prevention, care, and adherence [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16].…”

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“…This comprehensive compassionate care of persons with HIV is exemplified in the concept of a biopsychosociocultural approach as first applied to HIV and AIDS by Cohen and Weisman [3]. In this chapter, we will illustrate the importance of compassion and a comprehensive biopsychosociocultural approach [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Persons with HIV/AIDS are seen from the standpoint of their systemic medical illnesses, comorbid psychiatric illnesses, and psychological responses to illness.…”

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Persons who are at risk for, affected by, or infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are exquisitely vulnerable and deserve compassionate care. In this first chapter, and throughout this book, we present clinicians with approaches for prevention and care for persons with HIV that may diminish clinician anxiety and thus empower clinicians to make their work easier, more enjoyable, and less time-consuming and frustrating.HIV medicine and HIV psychiatry developed in the 1980s during the first years of the pandemic by pioneering internists, infectious disease specialists, pediatricians, and psychiatrists who recognized the specific psychosocial complexities of

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