Some health promotion experts have called for approaches with increased focus on enhancing health more broadly than the risk factor approach or disease focus (3,6). The more recent focus on well-being frameworks exemplifies this (3). This does not equate to the ‘rejection’ of prevention, public health or bio-medical approaches but rather creating a balance and …
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Danielle Collins: HIV nurse practitioner, Victorian HIV Service, Infectious Diseases Department, Alfred Hospital Acknowledgments Elizabeth Crock: Bolton Clarke HIV Program, Melbourne, was co-author on previous editions Oscar Morata Ramirez: Royal District Nursing Service HIV Program, Melbourne was co-author on the first edition. Summary In this section, the author discusses the important issue of adherence to antiretroviral …
Factors influencing antiretroviral adherence are multifactorial. They can be internal – pertaining to the person, and external – pertaining to those providing the care and to the medicines themselves. (14) External factors affecting an individual’s adherence can also be structural and systemic. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 brought with it a multitude of …
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The ability of people with HIV to adhere to treatment can be a complex matter, influenced by a wide range of individual, system-related, psychosocial, and socio-political factors potentially compounded by the life-long nature of antiretroviral therapy for HIV treatment. Nursing strategies to encourage, improve and maintain adherence include discussing potential antiretroviral therapy regimens with consideration …
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Denise Cummins: Sydney District Nursing, Sydney Local Health District Summary This section explores key issues for nurses in relation to cognitive impairment and people living with HIV (PLHIV): Background Examples of dementia HIV associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND) Screening, diagnosis, and predictors of HAND Signs and symptoms of HAND Treatment of HAND Strategies for support of cognitive …
It is recommended that PLHIV be questioned and screened annually about any changes to cognition or memory decline (23). If any symptoms are identified, HIV neurology review should be considered. In the short-term strategies should be discussed with the person to treat symptoms. If the person is then diagnosed with cognitive impairment the person should …