Vulnerability and Resilience in Living with HIV/AIDS

摘要: This chapter emphasizes the impact on mental health when discrimination, stigmatization and xenophobia combine to humiliate HIV positives. It analyzes their resilience coping mechanisms in this situation. The main argument of book will be supported by a number case studies chapter. Countries where HIV/AIDS epidemic is widespread, populations considered most-at-risk contracting are generally neglected groups from social, economic epidemiological point view. Consequently, very little effort made provide interventions for these who, turn, often excluded mainstream prevention services. However, transmission rates prevalence among high risk can up around 10 times higher than other society. explained large extent growing level stigma even hatred towards groups, especially MSM. Mounting social political rejection has magnified notion that class apart rest same pattern reflected public policy legislation form sodomy laws or criminalization homosexuality, fuelled acts violence against many countries. isolation vulnerability refugees multiplied if they become positive. Automatically, suffer society reserves categories most at not only society, but own households as well. Ultimately, discrimination them grow less access have treatment well more exposed vulnerable.