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• Title: Cultural Competence in a Group Intervention Designed for Latino Patients Living with Hiv/Aids (Report)
• Author : Health and Social Work
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 229 KB

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Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) has altered the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, addressing the social and psychological comorbidities that face patients living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) remains vital. Since the epidemic's earliest days, social workers have been critical contributors to the teams of professionals dedicated to meeting the multifaceted needs of PLWH (Chachkes, Ehrlich, Eisen, & Moynihan, 2003; Dando & Finlon, 2003). In particular, social work interventions with groups aimed at the general population of HIV-infected patients (Turner, 2003; Wiener, 2003; Willinger, 2003) and those targeting specific subgroups of patients (Smiley, 2004; Wiener, 2003) have proven successful in achieving this goal. Given the significant rate at which HIV/AIDS is infiltrating the Latino population in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2004), it is imperative that interventions be developed to address the needs of this subgroup specifically (Mason, Marks, Simoni, Ruiz, & Richardson, 1995; Van Servellen et al., 2003; Zambrana, Cornelius, Boykin, & Lopez, 2004). Doing so demands that treatment and prevention efforts be rooted in cultural competence because of culture's direct impact on both the risk of HIV infection within this population (VanOss-Marin, 2003) and individual patient's experience of illness and disease (Mason et al., 1995). LITERATURE REVIEW

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