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Stress & Anxiety
- Laughing Stock: How Improvisational Theater Helps People With HIV/AIDS (November 24, 2009)
From The Body
Suicide & HIV/AIDS
- Suicide Rates Drop With HAART (February 2010)
In HIV JournalView, from The Body PRO - Antiretroviral Drugs Cut Suicide Rate in Swiss AIDS Patients, a Study Finds (January 6, 2010)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Other Mental Health Issues
- Sexual Minorities More Likely to Seek Mental Health Services, Study Finds (August 14, 2009)
Greater levels of discrimination, stress may be factors, researchers say.
From University of California-Los Angeles - Abuse and Trauma: Lessons for HIV Prevention and Care (PDF) (2009)
A group of HIV advocates, medical professionals and anti-violence community organizers gathered to answer some of the key questions about the links between trauma, HIV risk and mental health -- and devise ways those links might be broken.
From San Francisco AIDS Foundation - Trauma: Frozen Moments, Frozen Lives (Summer 2008)
To read PDF, click here.
In Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation - Biopsychosocial Update (Spring 2008)
In Mental Health AIDS, from Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration - Does the Presence of a Current Psychiatric Disorder in AIDS Patients Affect the Initiation of Antiretroviral Treatment and Duration of Therapy? (December 1, 2004)
In Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes - Stable Partnership and Progression to AIDS or Death in HIV Infected Patients Receiving Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: Swiss HIV Cohort Study (January 3, 2004)
[Archived Article]
Abstract of a study finding that, from a health standpoint, relationships matter.
In British Medical Journal - Mental Health AIDS Newsletter (PDF) (Winter 2003/2004)
[Archived Article]
Includes a summary of clinical recommendations and published research regarding the psychological factors that influence sexual risk behavior between men.
In Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, from AETC National Resource Center - Quality of Life Impaired for Disadvantaged HIV Patients (September 3, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Hepatitis, Mental Illness, and Substance Abuse: Managing the Triple-Diagnosed HIV Patient (July 2003)
[Archived Article]
Highlights for healthcare professionals from the IAPAC Sessions 2003.
In IAPAC Monthly, from International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care - Memory Problems Increase Patients' Wish to Die (June 13, 2003)
[Archived Article]
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Study Details Link Between Attitude, Adherence (April 30, 2003)
[Archived Article]
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Psychiatric and Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of HIV Infection (April 4, 2003)
[Archived Article]
A slide presentation by Ewald Horwath, M.D.
- Perception of Punishment Undermines Adherence (November 27, 2002)
[Archived Article]
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Fatigue (August 31, 2002)
[Archived Article]
A look at fatigue from a psychological point of view.
In British Medical Journal - Psychosocial Interventions in Persons With HIV-Associated Neuropsychiatric Compromise (1998)
[Archived Article]
By Stephan L. Buckingham and Michael Shernoff.
In A Mental Health Practicioner's Guide to the Neuropsychiatric Complications of HIV/AIDS, from Guilford Publications
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