de Sa CA, Hanan J, Signorini DJ, Pinto JF, Sion FS; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1998; 12: 1103 (abstract no. 60562).
Hosp. Univ. Gaffree e Guinle, Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
ISSUES: Increasing number of HIV-positive individuals who willfully engage in behaviours likely to transmit virus to others. PROJECT: Health care professionals at a Gaffree and Guinle University Hospital, University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have interviewed HIV-positive patients who reported advertent risk behaviours and exposed their sexual partners to HIV. The issues studied were the characteristics of the persons and their behaviours. RESULTS: Recently there have been an increasing number of HIV-positive persons assisted in the Outpatient Unit at the Gaffree Guinle University Hospital who have infected or threatened to infect others. All were white people, both genders, heterosexual and bisexual orientation, classified as median class based on education and job history, none had drug dependency history, all of them were aware of their HIV-positive serum status for a long time. All of them refused to inform their sexual partner about their HIV seropositivity status. LESSONS LEARNED: It is important to formulate educational strategies for risk reduction of partners of HIV-seropositive individuals as well an rights and duties of HIV-infected individuals. The present data is consistent with those published in the international literature.
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Keywords:
- AIDS Vaccines
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Brazil
- HIV
- HIV Antibodies
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Humans
- Interviews as Topic
- Risk-Taking
- Sexual Partners
- education
Other ID:
UI: 102232511
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