The number of people living with HIV has increased in Nepal.
Cultural factors also closely interlink with the process of stigmatization of people living with HIV and those practicing risk behaviours .
Participants talk about doctors who seem to feel that providing treatment to HIV-positive people is a waste of resources.
Health professionals were perceived to lack knowledge and sensitivity in providing health care to often marginalized and stigmatized injecting drug users, sex workers and HIV-positive people.
Two-thirds of the HIV-positive women who disclosed their status did so before delivery.
The majority of HIV-infected women disclosed their HIV status to their partner before delivery.
Partners of HIV-positive women were more likely to be tested than partners of HIV-negative women (23.1% versus 14.8%, χ2 = 10.04, df = 1, p = 0.002).
Remaining in the study through the 18-mo postpartum appointment were 90% of HIV-negative women and 85% of HIV-positive women (χ2 = 6.603, degrees of freedom [df] = 1, p = 0.010).
HIV-infected women often don't disclose their serostatus to their husbands/partners due to fear of stigma, violence, abandonment or divorce .
In our program, 16% of HIV-infected women had evidence of WHO clinical stage III and IV disease.
The peer counselors were HIV-infected women who had previously participated in a ZDV-based PMTCT program at our site.
HIV-infected women who had had previously participated in a PMTCT program at our site, currently enrolled in support groups, and had disclosed their positive HIV status to partner or family member were selected to become peer counselors.
Psychosocial support for HIV-positive people is desperately needed around the world.
The training package promotes gender equity, inter-generational respect and solidarity with HIV-positive people, within a human rights framework.
The lives and experiences of people living with HIV highlight the need for a shift in the existing paradigm of disease management.
Official recruitment of HIV-positive people into the health system is limited, and where it does happen, HIV-positive people are mainly employed as peer supporters and counsellors.
HIV-infected women have both significantly elevated concentrations of genital tract inflammatory cytokines and cellular recruitment than uninfected women .
HIV-infected women had significantly elevated genital tract concentrations of IL-6, IL-8 and IL-1β than uninfected women.
HIV-infected women had a median CD4 cell count of 394 cells/μl (IQR 324-558) and median plasma viral load of 8250 copies/μl (IQR 4425-40500).
Of the HIV-infected women studied, 7/13 (53.8%) had detectable HIV RNA in their cervical secretions indicating that they were shedding virus ().
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