HIV-infected women: Barriers to AZT use
| Autor: | Eileen Gorey, Karolynn Siegel |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Drug Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Anti-HIV Agents media_common.quotation_subject HIV Infections Sampling Studies White People Treatment Refusal Zidovudine History and Philosophy of Science Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Pregnancy Humans Medicine Sida media_common biology business.industry Transmission (medicine) Public health Puerto Rico Hispanic or Latino Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Infectious Disease Transmission Vertical Black or African American Feeling Patient Satisfaction Family medicine Immunology Women's Health Female New York City Viral disease business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Social Science & Medicine. 45:15-22 |
| ISSN: | 0277-9536 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0277-9536(96)00303-6 |
| Popis: | AZT has become a mainstay drug in efforts to slow disease progression in HIV-infected individuals. Further, recent evidence indicates that AZT use by pregnant infected women and their neonates may reduce the risk of vertical transmission. In a study of HIV-infected women's treatment-related behavior, attitudes toward the use of this drug were examined. Data were gathered through unstructured interviewing techniques. The data from the first 71 women accrued revealed that negative attitudes towards its use were widely prevalent. Women viewed the drug as highly toxic, prescribed indiscriminately, inadequately tested in women and minorities, promoted for the wrong reasons and inappropriate while they were feeling well. The findings suggest that removing attitudinal barriers to the use of AZT will be important to both primary and secondary prevention efforts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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