Browsing by Subject "HIV"
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Experiences of stigma in healthcare settings by people living with HIV in Ireland: a qualitative study
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020-06-16)Stigma in healthcare settings remains a barrier to accessing screening, treatment and care for HIV and is a driver of the global HIV epidemic. This study examined the stigma experiences in healthcare settings of people ... -
Risk, science and blood: Politics, HIV, Hepatitis and Haemophilia in Ireland.
(NUI Galway, 2011-02)With Ireland's blood supply compromised in the 1980s, the impact upon its haemophiliac community was unprecedented. Thus far, academic attention has focused on apportioning blame and identifying administrative failure: ... -
Sex, stigma and silence: the discursive construction of HIV in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-11)Improvements to treatment mean that HIV is now a chronic, manageable illness. People living with HIV (PLHIV) have a life expectancy on a par with HIV negative individuals, and are non-infectious once the treatment goal of ... -
Social and clinical features of HIV infection in older children and adolescents in Zimbabwe
(2017-09-29)Introduction HIV infection has had a devastating effect on morbidity and mortality of children and adolescents, particularly in low- income settings. Zimbabwe has been at the epicentre of the HIV epidemic since mid-1990. ... -
Why a rights-based approach is essential to the Covid-19 response
(IPN Communications Ltd, 2020-08)[No abstract available]