Morteza Mehraeen1, Mohammadreza Heydari1, Kamran B Lankarani2, Hassan Joulaei1, Marjan Faghih3. 1. Shiraz HIV/AIDS Research Center (SHARC), Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2. Health Policy Research Centre, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. 3. Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Faculties Building, Payambar A'zam, University Campus, Baseej Square, Sardasht, Islamic Republic of Iran. marjanfaghih@yahoo.com.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: People with HIV have always faced stigma and discrimination. Given the numerous papers that have addressed the psychological and social risk factors in spreading HIV, a pressing question is whether individuals' mere careless and behavioural flaws can still account for the spread of HIV. Barriers and opposing politic made a hard position for HIV and sex education in Iran. METHODS: The present study investigated the causes of contracting HIV/AIDS from the perspective of HIV-infected patients. To accomplish this, 150 patients referring to the voluntary counseling and testing Center, Shiraz were convenient selected based on the convenient sampling method and responded to a researcher-made questionnaire From June to August 2019. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics (mean, SD, frequency tables) and inferential statistics (chi-square). RESULTS: Results revealed that the main cause of HIV infection amongst males was the injection of narcotics, and in the females it was sexual intercourse with an infected individual. Meanwhile, 57% of the females and 66% of the males blamed themselves for contracting and transmitting the disease. The patients stated that if they could return to pre-infection period, they would use one of the following ways to prevent the disease: (a) they would pay attention to hygienic/sanitary principles; (b) they would not get married; and (c) they would prevent drug addiction. Also only 44% of the individuals had successful siblings (those who were neither addicts nor HIV/AIDS-infected individuals), which was an observation that emphasizes on the epidemic of high-risk behaviors in the patients' families. CONCLUSIONS: According to participants' statements collected in our study, weakness in governmental public health education, along with family-related and individual factors, are important causes of HIV spread.
BACKGROUND:People with HIV have always faced stigma and discrimination. Given the numerous papers that have addressed the psychological and social risk factors in spreading HIV, a pressing question is whether individuals' mere careless and behavioural flaws can still account for the spread of HIV. Barriers and opposing politic made a hard position for HIV and sex education in Iran. METHODS: The present study investigated the causes of contracting HIV/AIDS from the perspective of HIV-infectedpatients. To accomplish this, 150 patients referring to the voluntary counseling and testing Center, Shiraz were convenient selected based on the convenient sampling method and responded to a researcher-made questionnaire From June to August 2019. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics (mean, SD, frequency tables) and inferential statistics (chi-square). RESULTS: Results revealed that the main cause of HIV infection amongst males was the injection of narcotics, and in the females it was sexual intercourse with an infected individual. Meanwhile, 57% of the females and 66% of the males blamed themselves for contracting and transmitting the disease. The patients stated that if they could return to pre-infection period, they would use one of the following ways to prevent the disease: (a) they would pay attention to hygienic/sanitary principles; (b) they would not get married; and (c) they would prevent drug addiction. Also only 44% of the individuals had successful siblings (those who were neither addicts nor HIV/AIDS-infected individuals), which was an observation that emphasizes on the epidemic of high-risk behaviors in the patients' families. CONCLUSIONS: According to participants' statements collected in our study, weakness in governmental public health education, along with family-related and individual factors, are important causes of HIV spread.
Authors: Karsten Lunze; Dmitry Lioznov; Debbie M Cheng; Ruslan V Nikitin; Sharon M Coleman; Carly Bridden; Elena Blokhina; Evgeny Krupitsky; Jeffrey H Samet Journal: AIDS Behav Date: 2017-09
Authors: Ronaldo Lopes de Souza; Lucimar Di Paula Dos Santos Madeira; Marcelo Victor Serejo Pereira; Rachel Macedo da Silva; João Bráullio de Luna Sales; Vania Nakauth Azevedo; Rosimar Neris Martins Feitosa; Jacqueline Cortinhas Monteiro; Marluisa de Oliveira Guimarães Ishak; Ricardo Ishak; Andre Luis Ribeiro Ribeiro; Aldemir B Oliveira-Filho; Luiz Fernando Almeida Machado Journal: BMC Infect Dis Date: 2020-02-11 Impact factor: 3.090