AEGiS-14IAC: Counselling for HIV positive women at the maternity national center of reference for HIV-AIDS, in Montevideo, Uruguay.

14th International AIDS Conference

Barcelona, Spain - July 7-12, 2002

Counselling for HIV positive women at the maternity national center of reference for HIV-AIDS, in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Int Conf AIDS 2002 Jul 7-12; 14:(abstract no. F11764)

Behrens LC, Santo CD
ASEPO, Uruguay

OBJECTIVES: This work intended to give strength and tools to women with HIV, so as to improve the quality of their lives and the full exercise of their rights.

METHODOLOGY: Through clinical guidelines we obtained information that lead to improve health. Some of the contents of the guideline are: name, address, age, description of the community, level of education, and socioeconomic level. We try to detect psichosocial problems and the use of drugs and to survey the way that these women had adquired the disease.

RESULTS: Throughout the 2001 we interview 100 HIV women per month, they were assigned to: Follow-up / 100% Mental Health (Psychologist and Psychiatrist) / 30% Social Worker / 40% Gynecologist-Obstetric (50%)

CONCLUSIONS: 1. These women were monitoring in a personal way, they received information to promote and improve their way of life and also their rights. 2. The pregnant women allow us to identify their needs for example: HIV test without consent, the right to breast-feed, the righ to abortion. 3. Our group make improvements in the knowledge of the disease 4. The counselling succeed in obtaining accurate information about family problems. 5. The survey allow us to know the the health politics is absent regarding HIV women

Keywords: AEGIS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV Infections, Counseling, HIV Seropositivity, Federal Government, Breast Feeding, Health Services Needs and Demand, Family Relations, Uruguay, Adult, Human, Female, Pregnancy

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