Addressing Barriers to Care in HIV-Positive African-American Women through an Interdisciplinary Comprehensive Care Worksheet
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- February 26, 2019
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Turner, Emily
- Affiliation: School of Nursing
- Abstract
- HIV care requires patients to be diagnosed, linked to care, retained in care, prescribed antiretroviral treatment, and reach viral suppression. Progressively more patients fall off the cascade at each step, and in doing so struggle to reach positive outcomes. African-American HIV-positive (black HIV+) women bear a significant burden of HIV morbidity, mortality, incidence, and prevalence. This is due to multiple barriers to care this population faces that prevent them from staying engaged in the cascade. A review of the literature was completed to understand the barrier categories stigma, trauma, social, and medical. These are significant in both prevalence and severity in black HIV+ women. Comprehensive care is healthcare that utilizes providers and communication to ensure every member of the HIV care team understands every barrier a patient faces. This is the best method of care delivery for black HIV+ women because of their many barriers. To facilitate comprehensive care, an Interdisciplinary Comprehensive Care Worksheet (ICCW) was developed to promote provider communication. The ICCW uses information gathered from the literature review of barriers, and was validated by two HIV care experts. By creating a better method of communication between providers, barriers to care in black HIV+ women can be identified and addressed more easily, increasing the likelihood of positive care outcomes.
- Date of publication
- spring 2016
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Gingrich, Pat
- Degree
- Bachelor of Science
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Extent
- 38 p.
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