2001
DOI: 10.1080/073993301300003126
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Sustaining the Relationship: Women's Caregiving in the Context of Hiv Disease

Abstract: In North America and throughout the world the number of persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV [PLWH]) continues to increase. Before the recent discoveries of effective antiviral treatments that have given hope to families of PLWH, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was looked upon as a disease that was a virtual death sentence to those who were infected. The symptoms and opportunistic infections associated with AIDS are varied and debilitating, and PLWH require intensive and prolonged c… Show more

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“…The association of HIV/AIDS with sexual practices, drug use, and death produces both types of stigma in those who are infected with the virus (Bunting, 2001). Discovering that one is HIV positive brings with it numerous anxieties and concerns that result from the fear and uncertainty about how other people will react and influences decisions about disclosure.…”
Section: Factors Correlated With Felt Stigmamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The association of HIV/AIDS with sexual practices, drug use, and death produces both types of stigma in those who are infected with the virus (Bunting, 2001). Discovering that one is HIV positive brings with it numerous anxieties and concerns that result from the fear and uncertainty about how other people will react and influences decisions about disclosure.…”
Section: Factors Correlated With Felt Stigmamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The caregiving implications for family members have changed accordingly (Bunting, 2001). Adults living with the now-chronic disease may be forced to look to their parents for long-term emotional and instrumental support (Johnston, Stall, & Smith, 1995).…”
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“…In this sense, the great majority of home care requires constant attendance, since it cannot be regularly scheduled. It also entails substantial emotional involvement (Bunting 2001).…”
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“…Recipients’ reciprocity of emotional, financial, instrumental and other forms of social support may enhance caregivers’ perceptions of their recipients’ appreciation of them and being mutually invested in their relationship 35,36,37 . Active drug use has been associated with conflictive behaviors and instability in interpersonal relationships 38,39 .…”
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