Bibliographies on nursing; books, pamphlets, articles, audio-visual aids.

Vol. 5 issued by the National League for Nursing, Division of Nursing Education.

AIDS and pro-social television : industry, policy and Australian television drama

This thesis examines the intersection of popular cultural representations of HIV and AIDS and the discourses of public health campaigns. Part Two provides a comprehensive record of all HIV related storylines in Australian television drama from the first AIDS episode of The Flying Doctors in 1986 to the ongoing narrative of Pacific Drive, with its core HIV character, in 1996. Textual representations are examined alongside the agency of "cultural technicians" working within the television industry. The framework for this analysis is established in Part One of the thesis, which examines the discursive contexts for speaking about HIV and AIDS established through national health policy and the regulatory and industry framework for broadcasting in Australia. The thesis examines the dominant liberal democratic framework for representation of HIV I AIDS and adopts a Foucauldian understanding of the processes of governmentality to argue that during the period of the 1980s and 1990s a strand of social democratic discourse combined with practices of self management and the management of the Australian population. The actions of committed agents within both domains of popular culture and health education ensured that more challenging expressions of HIV found their way into public culture.

O cuidar de enfermeiras na Estratégia Saúde da Família diante da vulnerabilidade feminina para HIV e o contexto familiar

Este estudo tem como objeto de pesquisa as ações de cuidar da enfermeira na Estratégia de Saúde da Família (ESF) diante da vulnerabilidade feminina para o Vírus da Imunodeficiência Humana (HIV) considerando o contexto familiar. Discutir a vulnerabilidade para o HIV, ainda constitui um desafio social, principalmente considerando a mesma, a partir das relações de gênero existente em nossa sociedade no que diz respeito ao papel social e sexual de homens e mulheres no interior de suas famílias. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivos: descrever a percepção sobre o HIV no contexto familiar para a enfermeira da ESF; compreender a percepção da enfermeira da ESF sobre a vulnerabilidade feminina para o HIV no contexto familiar e analisar as ações de cuidar da enfermeira da ESF acerca da vulnerabilidade feminina. Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória com abordagem qualitativa, a qual teve como sujeitos da pesquisa onze enfermeiras que foram selecionadas e atuavam na ESF no ano 2012, na Área Programática 2.2 do município do Rio de Janeiro. A coleta de dados foi realizada através de entrevistas semi-estruturadas. A técnica de análise do conteúdo foi baseada em Bardin. Emergiram três categorias: a) Percepções das enfermeiras em relação ao HIV e o contexto de familiar; b) Percepções das enfermeiras em relação à vulnerabilidade feminina para o HIV; c) Ações de cuidar das enfermeiras relacionadas à vulnerabilidade feminina para o HIV considerando o contexto familiar. Constatamos que o HIV é para as enfermeiras, o determinante de uma doença grave, de difícil acompanhamento, que não tem cura, de caráter complexo e também como um agravo que impõe limites em relação a sobrevida. As enfermeiras pouco valorizam as questões de gênero e o contexto social sobre a condição de vulnerabilidade das mulheres, responsabilizando-as por sua contaminação. A prevenção do HIV é realizada em grande parte nas atividades de educação em saúde desenvolvidas pelas enfermeiras da ESF, entretanto ela não é abordada considerando especificamente cada contexto familiar e social da mulher. Os valores pessoais ainda interferem nas ações das enfermeiras, e o HIV é apontado como um agravo possuidor de estigmas tanto sociais quanto culturais. Considerando a ESF uma ação governamental que tem por objetivo a autonomia do sujeito, as mudanças de paradigmas em relação à saúde dos indivíduos, e importante aliada na minimização dos problemas de saúde pública como a vulnerabilidade para o HIV é necessário que as enfermeiras estejam mais sensibilizadas e capacitadas (educação permanente), nas questões sociais (gênero) especificas da população feminina, para que suas ações possam minimizar a vulnerabilidade ao HIV nessa população.

Treatment of HIV/AIDS at South Africa's Largest Employers: Myth and Reality

Background: In the past three years, many large employers in South Africa have announced publicly their intention of making antiretroviral treatment (ART) available to employees. Reports of the scope and success of these programs have been mostly anecdotal. This study surveyed the largest private sector employers in South Africa to determine the proportion of employees with access to ART through employer-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programs. Methods: All 64 private sector and parastatal employers in South Africa with more than 6,000 employees were identified and contacted. Those that agreed to participate were interviewed by telephone using a structured questionnaire. Results: 52 companies agreed to participate. Among these companies, 63% of employees had access to employer-sponsored care and treatment for HIV/AIDS. Access varied widely by sector, however. Approximately 27% of suspected HIV-positive employees were enrolled in HIV/AIDS disease management programs, or 4.4% of the workforce overall. Fewer than 4,000 employees in the entire sample were receiving antiretroviral therapy. In-house (employer) disease management programs and independent disease management programs achieved higher uptake of services than did medical aid schemes. Conclusions: Publicity by large employers about their treatment programs should be interpreted cautiously. While there is a high level of access to treatment, uptake of services is low and only a small fraction of employees medically eligible for antiretroviral therapy are receiving it.

Will the "fight" ever end? : a critical reading of the metaphors and discourses that construct HIV/AIDS in an African context

In this thesis, I critically examine the discourses that inform how we conceptualise HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa as they are produced in a sample of Canadian news articles, two nonfiction texts - Stephanie Nolen's 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa and Jonathan Morgan and the Bambanani Women's Group's Long Life ... Positive HIV Stories - as well as two literary texts - John Le Carre's popular fiction novel The Constant Gardener and an anthology of stories and poems from Southern Africa titled Nobody Ever Said AIDS, compiled and edited by Nobantu Rasebotsa, Meg Samuelson and Kylie Thomas. Paying particular attention to the role of metaphor in discursive formation, I have found that military metaphors, usually used in conjunction with biomedical discourses, continue to dominate what is said about HIV/AIDS. However, the use of military metaphors to conceptualise HIV/AIDS contributes to stigma and limits the effectiveness of responses to the pandemic. I argue that accessing alternative metaphors and discourses, such as biopsychosocial discourse, can lead to a more layered - and more beneficial - conceptualisation of HIV/AIDS, encouraging a more active response to the pandemic.

Revue systématique d’interventions relatives à la gestion de symptômes chez la clientèle adulte traitée pour le VIH/sida

Travail dirigé présenté à la Faculté des sciences infirmières en vue de l'obtention du grade de Maître ès Sciences (M.Sc.) en sciences infirmières

¿Qué entienden los jóvenes universitarios por monogamia y sexo sin penetración, como estrategias preventivas de la transmisión sexual del virus del SIDA? = What university students understand by monogamy and sex without penetration as preventive strategies of sexual transmission of AIDS virus?

Monogamy and sex without penetration are behaviors recommended by the WHO to avoid AIDS virus sexual transmission. Seven hundred and fifty university students from 18 to 25 years (67.7% women) were surveyed and they were asked to give a maximum of three free definitions of the words monogamy and sex without penetration to prevent AIDS virus sexual transmission. Their participation was voluntary and anonymous. Although the majority of the answers was correct, there was a considerable percentage of wrong answers, either for monogamy (3.7% masturbation; 2.1% to have many partners; 0.9% homosexual relations), or for sex without penetration (20.5% oral sex; 1.1% anal coitus; 0.8% coitus without orgasm; 0.4% coitus interruptus). Some definitions or examples differ by gender. The amount of wrongs or incomplete answers put researchers on the alert about insufficient preventive knowledge in a population with a high educational level

Saúde sexual e reprodutiva de mulheres vivendo com HIV/AIDS atendidas em Hospital Dia

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