World AIDS Day Marks 20th Anniversary
World AIDS Day, marked annually on December 1, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The theme for 2008 event is leadership, continuing the theme of last year. Promoted with the slogan “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise,” the aim of the leadership campaign is to highlight the discrepancy between promises made to stop the spread of AIDS and the actions that need to be and have been taken to follow through on these promises.
To celebrate the 2007 and 2008 World AIDS Day theme of leadership, the World AIDS Campaign launched the Stop AIDS Leadership Pledge in November 2007. In collaboration with partner organizations around the globe, this initiative asks people from all over the world to World AIDS Day 2008pledge their leadership to help stop AIDS. Aiming for a goal of 100,000 pledges, organizers will use these commitments to create exhibitions, banners and other visibility actions during events in 2008 and 2009.
Individuals can take the leadership pledge at the World AIDS day site, opting to either speak to friends and family members about AIDS, write a letter or join a rally demanding universal access, or volunteer or donate to an AIDS cause. A list of pledges made across the globe can be viewed at the World AIDS campaign site.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services, are also working to promote World AIDS Day through the website www.AIDS.gov and its “Facing AIDS: World AIDS Day 2008” Campaign. “Facing AIDS” is a web-based campaign that focused on ways individuals can take action to show support for those living with HIV and AIDS and raise awareness as well. CDC’s efforts also focus on HIV testing, creating web buttons to promote HIV testing for use on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and utilizing text messaging to connect people with local resources. With this latter service, cell phone users can send a text message of their zip code to “KNOWIT” (566948). to receive a text message containing one or more local HIV testing sites.
For more information about HIV and AIDS, visit the ASHA site and message board forums.
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Filed under Advocacy, Buzz, HIV | AIDS | Comment (0)Magic Johnson accused of faking AIDS
Can you believe two talk show radio hosts accused Magic Johnson of faking having AIDS? It’s been floating around on the internet and I believe Magic Johnson is ticked off about it. I don’t blame him because he has made it his life’s work to educate people about HIV and AIDS.
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Filed under Buzz, HIV | AIDS, Magic Johnson | Comment (0)City’s Newest STD Resource Offers Online Testing
San Francisco, CA – San Francisco STD officials will unveil the City’s newest system to ensure that San Francisco residents have better access, greater convenience, and easier choices in personal STD testing for people at risk for syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV and herpes.
A confidential online testing resource, www.STDTest.org, is a collaboration between Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc. (ISIS) and the San Francisco Department of Public Health - STD Prevention and Control. It will be presented Wed. Sept. 24, 11:30 a.m. at Gotham Tattoo Parlor (3991 17th St. at Market), one of seven participating lab testing locations.
Through STDTest.org, individuals print their own lab slips and locate a nearby testing site to provide their samples. Test results then arrive within three to five days, accessible online by a unique identifier (PIN). HIV test results are delivered on the phone by a trained counselor. The Department of Public Health will ensure all persons who test positive for an STD receive information on treatment options as soon as possible, whether through City Clinic or their own healthcare provider.
“STDTest.org demonstrates an effective partnership to match new technology and creative resources with local prevention, testing and treatment options, particularly for gay men and young adults,” said Deb Levine, ISIS Executive Director. “Providing accessible and free tools that empower people to take charge of their own sexual health is key in reducing disease in our community.”
After several years of declining syphilis rates in San Francisco, the number of reported cases of early syphilis for the first half of 2008 was 274, up nearly 35% compared to the same period in 2007. In 2007, 595 cases of rectal chlamydia and 494 cases of rectal gonorrhea were diagnosed among men who have sex with men in the city, while the rate of chlamydia among African-American adolescents was over 7 times that of white adolescents.
Through a safe, easy, and secure online payment mechanism, STDTest.org users can “Pay it Forward”– donating a test to family, friends, loved ones, or someone in need– allowing the entire community to benefit from information and services available.
“While frequent testing for individuals can ensure individual sexual health and disease prevention, we also recognize most testing services do not come without a price,” said Levine. “We remain committed to offering STDTest.org for free to any San Francisco resident in need of testing, especially those reluctant or unable to seek medical care for STDs, relying upon community generosity instead of usage fees.” In-kind services have already been donated by Paypal, and a starting “Pay it Forward” donation from an anonymous funder.
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Filed under Buzz, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, HIV | AIDS, Herpes, Syphilis, std testing | Comment (0)My Life is Not Over - Part 2
It has been more then a year after my diagnosis with HSV2. I simply wanted to update what’s been going on with my life.
I am currently working with HIV positive clients as a Case Manager, and I enjoy it. Since being diagnosed I’m still with my partner and engaged.
He has never mentioned to me my H status and it’s as if I didn’t have it. We don’t use condoms since he doesn’t care of my H status.
Keep in mind people that I’m Asymptomatic, meaning I have never had symptoms or outbreaks (THANK GOD), yet I can still infect my partner. He chooses not to use condoms.
I simply want to let people in here know that H is a simple Virus, a second chance from having become infected with HIV. With H many people live normal lives. If you are newly diagnosed simply read read and read.
Become educated on H and how it can be transmitted. I’m lucky my partner loves me regardless of my H status. I don’t know why he is so okay with it. I have educated him, but I think he doesn’t mind my status since I’m Asymptomatic. That doesn’t mean he will be if he ever became infected.
We have been trying to have a child, and I do worry about my H status if and when I become Pregnant. In the other hand I know there is medication and steps to take to protect my children to come.
Well take care, become educated on H. Don’t be ashamed of your H status. - G
Filed under Buzz, Condoms, HIV | AIDS, Herpes, Stories | Comments (3)Lemons to control the herpes virus?
Question or Comment
I prayed to God for an answer I have lived with frequent outbreaks for 14 years then I started craving lemons every day I would squeeze half a lemon into 1 glass of water I would even eat lemons then my sores went away 1 month latter I got tested for herpies and they could only find the herpies anti-bodies in my body. I went on a search about lemons and lemons can kill the hiv in a petri dish according to a web site but I had stoped with the lemons and 6 months latter they came back. .Point being I believe that I have found a possible remedy to reduce herpies frequences in fact I read the lemons actually increase the immune system. Anyway I thought that you would find this interesting
Here’s what I think
Eating lemons does absolutely nothing for the herpes virus. In fact, I don’t think you will find anything clinical that would back up your theory.
Also, having herpes antibodies means that you have herpes. Just because you don’t get outbreaks that you can see or feel doesn’t mean that you no longer have the herpes virus.
Many people out there have herpes and they don’t know it because they don’t get symptoms that they can see or feel. It’s still possible to pass herpes even if there are no outbreaks that you can see or feel.
Once you contract herpes, you keep it for life. To date, there is no way to wipe out the herpes virus from your system once you contract it.
Filed under Buzz, HIV | AIDS, Herpes | Comments (11)June 27th is National HIV Testing Day
Coordinated by the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA-US), this campaign helps reach millions of Americans at risk for HIV with the message that “It’s better to know.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 180,000 to 280,000 people nationwide are HIV-positive but are unaware of their status. HIV counseling and testing enables people with HIV to take steps to protect their own health and that of their partners, and helps people who test negative get the information they need to stay uninfected.
In observance of this day, there will be many community events that involve state and local organizations. The campaign’s outreach effort includes everyone, but especially targets high-risk populations such as African American and Latino communities; adolescents; young homosexual, bisexual, and transgendered men; women of childbearing age; and people who use contaminated needles to inject drugs.
To learn more, and to search for an HIV testing site in your area, you can visit the NAPWA site or the National HIV testing Day page. For more information on HIV, visit the ASHA website.
Filed under Buzz, HIV | AIDS, std testing | Comment (0)I tried Chemistry.com and I didn’t like it
I tried Chemistry.com and based on my experience save your money. There really isn’t much to this site. I saw the tv ads too and gave it a shot.
I started with the trial that is advertised, filled the extensive personality test but didn’t get far before I got a page blocking me from fully using the site without subscribing. The site doesn’t let you see what you are getting until you subscribe.
So I did. I gave it a whirl and did the $99 three month membership. I was presented with 5 potential matches.
There is a slider bar where you indicate your level of interest for each match and then the site contacts them to see if the first impression is mutual to allow you to go to the questions phase or if the match should be archived.
So far this was all well and good except there was more than a little bs going on. According to “Dr Fisher” there are 4 personality categories. Each person has a major and minor personality category depending on your answers to the test. When a potential match is presented, you get a paragraph explaining why you match well with each of the other 15 possibilities (major/minor combinations). Except it becomes apparent it doesn’t really matter what that combination is. You get this vague paragraph in pyschobabblese supposedly from matchmaker Fisher selling you what actually is completely arbitrary.
So this was disappointing. But more I became annoyed when they wouldn’t accept one of my photos. It wasn’t pornographic or inappropriate. It was a facial shot with a blue graphic effect on it that I posted with my standard photos. I got an email saying it wasn’t acceptable because it was blurry even though I had standard photos that showed what I looked like. The point of this specific photo wasn’t to do that but to present myself in a more artistic light. The point of your profile is to present yourself for possible matches and yet Chemistry.com wanted to marshal how I was allowed to do that. Again, I would have understood if the photo was pornographic or something.
After the first couple days I only got 1 to 2 matches every other day or so many without photos and an underdeveloped profile page. This isn’t entirely the matches fault. The site only allows for a general paragraph and photos.
After deciding the service wasn’t worth the money I was paying I wrote them to asked for the prorated portion to be returned to my credit card and for my membership to be cancelled. I have written the site several times now and I only get a form letter telling me to call their CS line. I didn’t want to waste anymore time but eventually I did call, waited on hold and get the predictable nice girl on the phone hired to placate instead of solve any problems.
They refused to refund my money. After investing 30 to 45 minutes of my time she agreed to scale back my membership to 1 month for $50 instead of 3 months for $100 which wasn’t acceptable but I took only because it was all I could get. Again, the girl was pleasant enough but kept telling me it was detailed in the terms no refunds are returned for unused time when you cancel. Of course since I couldn’t see the product until I paid they had me.
It has been almost a week since that conversation and my subscription status page doesn’t even reflect the change they agreed to. I emailed them again about it and they told me to call the 800 number again. So far I haven’t which they are probably counting on.
My experience with Chemistry.com has just been a waste of time and money. They advertise, cast a wide net and once you pay they don’t care anymore. The service doesn’t give you anything you can’t get free at other sites. The psychological aspect of this site is a ruse. Every potential match combination comes with a form letter. Its all arbitrary. The site is very limited. And once they have your money they have no interest in keeping your business. Join a book club if you are sick of the bar. You won’t get your money’s worth here. - Tristram
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Filed under Buzz, HIV | AIDS | Comment (0)She Sits in the Chair
I can tell she is trying to act as if being here at the std clinic isn’t a big deal.
As usual, I tell my patient that I will be good to her, take care to attempt to stick her only once to draw her blood and get her out of the chair as soon as possible with as little pain as possible.
She doesn’t respond. She is trying not to look at the needle, as do most of my patients. She is concentrating on the pictures and papers I have put on the wall to inspire my patients or to give them something “nice” to read while I am drawing their blood. For some of them it may be the only nice word they get all day. Who knows?
I make sure my words and touches are gentle and therapeutic for my patients. It may be the only “good” touch or word they get all day and I want to inspire them to give that good karma to someone else because they remember how reassuring it felt when they were uneasy and afraid. Still all of the goodness, reassurance and trust that I am attempting to pass on to this gal is hitting a brick wall. Her eyes are empty and I can tell she is asking herself all of the questions that we all ask ourselves when we are in trouble…. especially this sort of trouble…”What have I done now?, Why did I do that? Why didn’t he/she tell me?” and the all encompassing, mind boggling, “What now?”.
I ask her if she would like for me to count or just go for it? She doesn’t respond again.
She is still looking at the wall. I am hoping something has made some sense to her and she is feeling better by absorbing it a bit. I prepare the arm and begin to draw the blood. The moment the needle is inside the vein, the tears begin. Maybe the small pinch of the needle was simply the permission she needed to let go.
“May I have a tissue please?” she asks, embarrassed and sad faced, tears on their journey down her cheeks. I finish the draw, ask her to press on the cotton and reach for the paper towel dispenser telling her, “These aren’t exactly sandpaper but they also are not Puffs.” She buries her face. I do not want her to be embarrassed.
My compassion button has been pushed and activated. This is why I do this job, it is not glamorous, it does not use every skill I learned in school but having walked at least 5 miles in the shoes of every broken hearted person who sits in my chair I feel it does use the lessons - the very hard lessons - that life has taught me. One of those hard lessons is herpes. I work here for a reason. So I tell her, “I have sat in this very chair, please do not feel bad. Illness is not selective - if it is gonna get us - it is gonna get us. Illness does not care how much money we make or where we go to school or church or even what sort of car we drive.”
No response - only the constant flow of tears.
I know my patient is not going to leave the chair. She is curling up in a ball towards the wall. I grab more tissues and gently hand them to her. I push the door shut a bit.
I ask a difficult question. “Did someone hurt you? Do you need help?”
She erupts.
“YES!! He could have told me. He been my man for months and he couldn’t even tell me! His baby momma had to go and call me at 4 in the morning! I tried not to care about him having another girl; I cared about him…. he say he don’t love her but why he over there at 4 am? I tell you why….cause he already went and done this to her!
She already dead and now I’m gonna die too….he killed what I had left. Now I never gone have a baby, now no man gone want me! I’m messed up now.”
And more tears, more and more tears. I hand her more sandpaper Puffs.
I ask her “Why do you think you are messed up Boo? What did he not tell you?”
(I would like to thank whoEVER made the word “Boo” for friend. It is multi-purpose, comes off the end of your tongue, is recognized by most and sits well with my patients.)
She looks me straight in the eye for the first time since she has been in the room.
“His baby momma tol’ me! She tol’ me he has herpes and he give it to her and now she got to be careful when she has dis baby, maybe the baby will get it. I dunno if I care. I don’t wanna be hateful - I don’t want God to hate me cause I hate him but I hurt, an maybe dis isn’t all he give me. Di’we check me for hiv? Oh God! What if he gimme that too?” She is quietly breaking down in the chair. Her tears are racking her and still she tries to hold it together through this revolution - this sudden burst of painful “what ifs’.
I tell her that we have done an hiv test and it will be back before she leaves the clinic.
She is crying less now. She is trying to be big and brave again with little success.
I take her hand and look her straight in the eyes and tell her, “IF you really do have herpes - IF this is what is really happening - there is help for you. I have herpes. I am married. I have a wonderful life. This is not the end, maam; life begins over again so many times in our lives. We lose something and we gain something else.”
She looks at me as if I just told her the sky has fallen. “How do you gone stand there and tell me you have dis? You don’t act like it!” Not wanting to bring up that even a person with herpes doesn’t act a certain way, I remind her that I had told her I had sat in the same chair, felt the same way and admitted I had probably acted worse.
My patient takes her hand from mine, she stands up, I think she is going to leave the room. Have I upset her? She puts down her sandpaper Puffs - and she hugs me.
And cries a bit more. I tell her as she is hugging me that this is NOT the end and we really don’t even know if that is what it is yet. I tell her that I will be waiting when she comes out of the room with her clinician and I hope she will be smiling. In fact,
I am counting on it. I tell her if it is what the baby’s mother has told her it is - I will help her. But we will cross that bridge when we get there. I help her dry her eyes, give her one more little hug and tell her that after she gets her exam, I want her to come back and see me so I can know how she is.
There is a small light in her eyes that was not there before. She is just a tiny bit more alive than when I first saw her, a bit more hopeful perhaps. Again, she looks me straight in the eye and tells me “We gone figure dis out.” I tell her “Yes, we are.”
I believe she gave me the only small bit of a grin she had left in her. I gave her a wink and told her I would be here when her exam is done.
I am busy drawing more blood but I hear her called into a room. Her samples are taken and given to the lab. The patient is back in the waiting room nervously watching some television. In my heart I am praying the TV hasn’t been turned to Springer or some other nonsense show that might upset her. I try not to allow those types of shows in the clinic waiting room for a good reason. At the clinic we handle tough situations and on sensationalizing-type talk show, those tough situations are used as entertainment.
But she seems fine and is watching some old movie. Her Practitioner calls the patient back in. This is when they receive the results of their visit.
I am waiting.
I am stocking my room and sense someone is there, I look up, it is her…..and she is smiling! I put down my Sharps containers and she is coming into the room and she gives me another hug. NOT like the first one - no, this is so much different.
She has grabbed me and is holding me in a bear hug and patting me saying (nearly chanting!) “It izin’t herpes! It izin’t herpes! The doc say if dis is herpes he will eat his hat!” She is laughing, jovial and maybe a bit overly euphoric but hey! 20 minutes ago she said she was dead. The dead have suddenly come back to life with this bit of good news. I am elated for her.
She pulls back from our hug and pulls up her shirtsleeve, revealing a tattoo. It is a tattoo of a heart and it is made of bricks, only it is not finished. She says to me “I started this tattoo 3 years ago when my first ol’ man beat me and I ran away from him. When I get mad an’ sometime when I get hurts I go to the tattoo place and have another brick or two put in. This morning I told myself if I have the herpes I am filling it all in, ev’ry brick, and I am neva gone trust no one again, now I’m not gone do that today. I don’t have that herpes and I am happy. I am also happy not to have to go to the tattoo place cause it hurt when he does it.”
I am also very happy for my patient. She has been spared a life’s tragedy 1 in 4 of us live with every day. Many of us who are now reading this do have herpes and hopefully are making the most out of every day - despite this.
I tell her “I want you to think about not EVER having another brick tattooed onto that heart, not only because I hate to think that your young heart would be that hardened, but also because - doesn’t that mean they win? The person who hurt you and put another brink in your heart will be engraved on you and you cannot be rid of them. You will continue to carry them around with you brick by brick. Do not reward them with a permanent place on your body so that every time you see your tattoo - you remember they hurt you. Does that make any sense? Just think about it.”
I can tell that she is thinking about this. But I can also tell her little head is so full she will need time to digest all of this. She gives me a last little hug, says she has got to catch a bus, thanks me again and is gone. I think about how just 30 minutes ago she was thinking of being dead, of never trusting anyone again and of “marking herself” by her own sorrow.
I think of how much more damage she could have done to herself by possibly having a positive diagnosis of herpes - many have not survived well and did not even have a stranger to help them. These are the one’s that I worry about because that was once me. I was inconsolable when I received my diagnosis of herpes, I felt I had no one to turn to and if my furniture could talk, it would cuss me out for kicking it when I got home from the Dr’s. Appointment where I learned I have herpes. I may have damaged my furniture but I didn’t damage myself - not permanently anyway.
But I felt as if I had the word “Herpes” tattooed on my forehead. I felt as if anyone who looked at me would instantly know I have herpes. I felt “marked” by my life’s circumstance. I could not, in good conscience let this gal think that carving something so permanent and negative onto her skin was a good or productive thing. Life scars us as it is. We all have little battle scars just from living, life is hard sometimes and I felt in her case there was no extra need to advertise further.
I do not like to leave a job unfinished, but in this case, I would make an exception and not finish this heart tattoo made of bricks.
I am hoping she feels the same. I think she did when she left.
Filed under Buzz, HIV | AIDS, Herpes, Stories | Comment (0)My “Break-Out” Story
Hi All, It has taken me a long time to write this but it is my time to tell to give others hope. In the beginning I thought it would be so hard to tell another living soul, but I have never been a good secret keeper when it comes to “Big” things about myself.
In the summer of 2005 I flew to the “Sunshine State” for the first time with a friend to have a long “Girls Weekend”. Needless to say I had a blast! I met a guy and thought “Wow”. We hit it off and had a wonderful phone conversation that lasted for 3 months. I thought I really felt comfortable with this guy and he even said he was “Safe” he had been tested for “everything”. Well I flew down to see him and had a great time. We had plans to see each other in another couple of months, well it never got to that point.
Around Christmas I started feeling really bad. My muscles ached, I moved like a turtle, and one day in the shower I felt something that wasn’t right down below. I thought…something’s wrong with me ! I just knew it had to be an STD but was in denial a little bit. I searched the Internet and was almost convinced that it was Syphilis because that could be cured. This couldn’t have come at a worse time, but we can’t always plan how things happen in our lives. I had just been promoted at work and was trying to hire an assistant. It was Christmas time too so you can imagine all the stress going on.
I finally took myself to the Health Department, I couldn’t bring myself to go to my doctor for some reason. It was probably scarier going to the Health Department, but I made a decision. If I had to pick a feeling it would be like when you are a kid in school waiting for the principal to call your name and when you get up everyone looks at you. Maybe they weren’t looking at me but it sure felt that way. I have never been so insecure in my life.
When I went in they asked all kinds of questions including when they did the AIDS test, the man asked me how I would react if he told me I was positive. Well that came back negative…WHEW ! I still plan to get retested at the end of this month because it had only been 3 months from the time I had been with that guy. It has now been 10 months.
When the doctor examined me she couldn’t find anything, and showed me some books to see if it was lesions that I was seeing. Well the times that I had seen my “cuts” they were only one at a time and didn’t hurt so I didn’t think that it was herpes. All of my tests came back negative that time, but I wasn’t convinced. She told me to come back later in the month if I saw anymore “cuts” because if it was Herpes then the antibodies take 3 months to be present in the blood. I was so SCARED ! How could this happen to me ? I am a strong, sweet, determined, clean-freak, hard working single mother.
I go back at the end of February and asked for the HSV Igg Serology test, I got the same doctor and she just couldn’t believe that what I could have could be Herpes but it wasn’t impossible either. She did a culture of what I did have down there (a healed lesion) and an Igg serology blood test. Well the culture came back - and the blood test was + for HSV 2. I was so devastated I couldn’t even eat my Broccoli and Beef I had for lunch. I asked her, So what does that mean?….Do I have Herpes ? She said 50/50 chance…What? Do I or don’t I ? I knew I did because one little cut came like clockwork every month after my period. So I called my doctor to get meds or an appointment. I spoke to the nurse and she just wanted me to fax the results and they would give me meds. I thought they would have to see me, but the nurse said only if I wanted to talk to the doctor. My annual wasn’t due until October. The medication is expensive but worth it ! I went as far as trying to get new insurance because the group plan rates are so high. Well going independently would have been cheaper if I didn’t have a new “condition”. I look so forward to next year. The rates will be cheaper and hopefully I will have fewer outbreaks.
I have now met a wonderful guy…the one I have been patiently waiting to come into my life. Our relationship is very new (just over a month) but from the beginning I told him my “Status” I didn’t want what happened to me to happen to him. I have told my close friends only and they all have admired my Strength. The repeat thing that I hear is You are a remarkable person for being able to tell that. I don’t see it as a Big thing telling others…it has to be done for people to be aware that there are dangerous things out in this world. Well my guy has accepted me regardless. He surprised me one day when I came home. He said I did something this morning. I went to the free clinic to get checked out. My heart froze. He said that he got checked out for everything, but Herpes. I still want him to get tested for that, but now I fear it is too late, we waited a month but we have been having a glorious time and both felt it was time for us to be together (sexually).
I have been taking Valtrex for a month and he used a condom. We both know the risks. He is positive for HPV. I have an appointment to receive the vaccine for this at the end of the month. The rewards outweigh the risk for me. It was my final decision. If he was willing to accept my condition, I was willing to accept his. So now we are on the journey of being together regardless of a little “BUG”.
Thanks to Yoshi2me I feel beautiful again. ~ Sara
Filed under Buzz, HIV | AIDS, HPV, Herpes, Stories, Syphilis, Valtrex | Comment (0)The Phone Call that Changed my Life - A Study
A few years ago, when I was 24 yrs old, I sent out a mail-in HIV test kit that I had purchased from my local drugstore. About a week later, I called the phone number and was given the diagnosis that would change the course of my life forever…over the phone. The weeks and months that followed irrevocably shaped my view of life and the disease that threatens it.
I am now a graduate student at San Francisco State University and I am conducting a research study on how HIV/AIDS diagnoses are delivered and the impact of the diagnosis.
PATIENT/CAREGIVER COMMUNICATIONS
AND THE DELIVERY OF BAD NEWS
A STUDY INVOLVING HIV POSITIVE PATIENTS
I am conducting a study about medical bad news delivery and the communication between patient and care provider. I am particularly interested in looking at communication about HIV/AIDS diagnosis and the effects of the diagnosis. I am hoping to learn more about this kind of communication and offer insights to care-providers about the effects of these interactions.
If you feel you are able to share a few details about your diagnosis, I invite you to fill out a questionnaire about your experiences when you were given the news about your HIV status. Your responses are confidential. Data collected from this study will be used in completion of a master’s program at San Francisco State University. This study is open to men and women 18 or older.
Please visit the website below to participate
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