Messina CN, Ada AN; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1998; 12: 1104 (abstract no. 60566).
ISSUE: The death of an AIDS's patient always lead to curiosity of the family, obliging the Physician to reveal its official cause. It unfortunately leads to an attitude which, disrupt the sensitization's campaigns against AIDS. PROJECT: The objectives of this survey was to examine the attitudes of families towards the death of AIDS's patients, determine their causes, list their consequences and propose some solutions. Although the National AIDS Control Program Statistics reveals 2766 cases of diagnosed AIDS, the empirical observation shows very little cases of death linked to AIDS. This great discordance is due to the fact that families does not talk about the real cause of the death, at the funeral oration, for many reasons: shame, stigmatization, fear. RESULTS: -The deceased partners's are not informed of their serological status and can transmit the disease. -Some risk of contamination are linked with early manipulation of the corpses. -AIDS is not real for the community, reducing the power of the sensitizations's campaigns. LESSONS LEARNED: By caring about the deceased's memory and moral interests of its family, the strategy testimony on the reality of AIDS is not reinforced, weakening the sensitization campaigns. The community should then be trained on counselling of people living with AIDS and banalisation of the disease.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Attitude
- Counseling
- Death
- Emotions
- Family
- Fear
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Humans
- education
Other ID:
UI: 102232515
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