The social stigma of HIV-AIDS: society's role.
The social stigma of HIV-AIDS: society's role.
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10.2147/hiv.s129992
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2017
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Fasoulakis Z
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Kontomanolis EN;Michalopoulos S;Gkasdaris G;Fasoulakis Z
艾滋病是一种毁灭性的致命疾病，影响着全世界人民，并且像所有感染一样，它的出现毫无征兆。具体而言，患有艾滋病的育龄妇女在怀孕期间面临持续的心理困难，尽管怀孕本身可能是正常和健康的。这些女性必须应对怀孕时通常带来的不确定性和压力，并且必须接受患有危及生命的疾病的现实；除此之外，他们还必须应对来自环境的歧视和污名行为。众所周知，平衡的心理状态是正常怀孕的主要决定因素，也是拥有良好生活质量的起点。尽管技术和医学的进步很快，但受感染的孕妇似乎缺乏这一基本要求。社区似乎没有做好准备，也没有受过教育，无法让这些人顺利融入他们的社会，让无知边缘化和孤立这些患者。出于上述所有原因，社会和医疗专业人员必须做出回应，并为艾滋病毒阳性儿童携带者提供一切必要的支持和建议，以减轻他们的恐惧并减轻他们的痛苦。本文的目的是总结艾滋病毒感染者为了生存和融入社会所面临的困难，找出公众意识低下的主要原因，讨论现状，并为减少艾滋病毒感染者的耻辱感提供潜在的解决方案。
AIDS is a devastating and deadly disease that affects people worldwide and, like all infections, it comes without warning. Specifically, childbearing women with AIDS face constant psychological difficulties during their gestation period, even though the pregnancy itself may be normal and healthy. These women have to deal with the uncertainties and the stress that usually accompany a pregnancy, and they have to live with the reality of having a life-threatening disease; in addition to that, they also have to deal with discriminating and stigmatizing behaviors from their environment. It is well known that a balanced mental state is a major determining factor to having a normal pregnancy and constitutes the starting point for having a good quality of life. Even though the progress in both technology and medicine is rapid, infected pregnant women seem to be missing this basic requirement. Communities seem unprepared and uneducated to smoothly integrate these people in their societies, letting the ignorance marginalize and isolate these patients. For all the aforementioned reasons, it is imperative that society and medical professionals respond and provide all the necessary support and advice to HIV-positive child bearers, in an attempt to allay their fears and relieve their distress. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the difficulties patients with HIV infection have to deal with, in order to survive and merge into society, identify the main reasons for the low public awareness, discuss the current situation, and provide potential solutions to reducing the stigma among HIV patients.