Living with HIV Disclosing

Living with HIV

Disclosing one’s HIV+ status is a complex, difficult, and very personal matter, because it entails communication about a potentially life threatening, stigmatized and transmissible illness. Choices people make about this are not only personal but vary across different age groups, in different situations and contexts, with different partners, and may change with time depending on one’s experiences. Disclosure may have lifelong implications since more people are living longer, and often asymptomatically with HIV. Public health messages have traditionally urged disclosure to all sexual and drug-using partners. In reality, some HIV+ persons may choose not to disclose due to fears of rejection or harm, feelings of shame, desires to maintain secrecy, feelings that with safer sex there is no need for disclosure, fatalism, perceived community norms against disclosure, and beliefs that individuals are responsible for protecting themselves.

QUESTION

In 300-400 words, scholarly written, APA 7th edition
manual formatted and referenced. A minimum of 2 references (within 5 years) are required.

discuss your position on the following:

* Does an individual have an obligation to disclose his/her HIV status? Explain.
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* Does a physician or other health care provider have an obligation to disclose a patient’s HIV status? Explain.
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* Do public health concerns trump the individual’s rights to medical confidentiality? Explain.

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