| Client-Centered Prevention Counseling
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Counseling conducted in an interactive manner that is responsive to the individual’ s needs. This approach requires an understanding of the unique circumstances of the client – behaviors, culture, knowledge, and social and economic status. |
Client Referral Approach
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A PCRS approach whereby the HIV-infected client informs his or her partners of their possible exposure to HIV and refers them to counseling, testing, and other support
services. |
| Confidential |
Requirement that all personally identifying records be kept secure in a locked file and that no information be released to anyone without signed authorization from the client. |
| Contract Referral Approach |
A PCRS approach whereby, if the HIV-infected client is unable
to inform a partner within an agreed-upon time, the provider has the permission and information necessary to do so. |
Dual Referral Approach
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A PCRS approach whereby the HIV-infected client and the
provider inform the partner together. |
| Duty To Warn |
A legal concept indicating that a health care provider who
learns that an HIV-infected client is likely to transmit the virus to another identifiable person must take steps to warn
that person; state laws determine what actually constitutes a "duty to warn." |
| Partner |
A person who shares sex or drug-injection needles with
another. |
| PCRS |
Partner counseling and referral services. |
| PCRS Provider |
A wide variety of qualified, trained health care professionals
including physicians, nurses, counselors, disease intervention specialists, and others. |
| Prevention Counseling |
Guiding a client’ s understanding of his or her perception of
risk for becoming infected with HIV and developing a plan for reducing that risk for themselves and their partners. |
| Privilege To Disclose |
Guidance for a PCRS provider who knows the identity of a
partner at risk for HIV, whom the infected client is unable or unwilling to inform; usually guided by state laws. |
| Provider Referral Approach |
A PCRS approach whereby, with the permission of the HIV-infected
client, the provider informs the partner and refers him or her to counseling, testing, and other support services. |
| Spouse |
A legal marriage partner as defined by state law (for purposes
of the requirements of the Ryan White CARE Act). |
| Window Period |
Period of time in between initial infection of HIV and development
of a positive antibody test for HIV. The window period can last anywhere from about 2 weeks to (rarely) a
year, although antibodies will usually be detected within 3 to 6 months. |
