PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS

PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS

People living with HIV/Aids face a number of consequences-including physical health (opportunistic infections), mental health (psychotically distress), economic difficulties (inability to work, cost of health care leading to increased poverty), and often face social and legal issues (stigma, human rights violations).

HIV/Aids care should not only focus on medical care, but requires a wide range of services, such as psychological, social and legal support-hence the need of a comprehensive continuum of care. Implementation on the availability and quality of the other services.

In Cambodia, home-care teams from local organizations support a large number of families affected by HIV/Aids found that their overall well-being improved due to the visits from the home-care teams, families spend less money on medicines and had to make fewer visits to hospital. In addition, neighbors, friends and family members came to understand more about HIV/Aids and to be less afraid of the virus-there was less stigma around HIV/Aids in the community, making it easier to provide education on HIV prevention.