Conference Proceedings 8thAnnual Interdisciplinary Research Conference

Transforming Healthcare through Research, Education and Technology

Kumpulan	: Jurnal Ilmiah (Non-Kategori) [ENGLISH]
Edisi/Volume	: ,
Pengarang	: School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity College Dublin
Klasifikasi/Subjek	: , MIDWIFE
Penerbitan	: School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity College Dublin, DUBLIN: 2007.
Bahasa	: ENGLISH
PENYIMPANAN
Lokasi	: PUSAT-40-A-
Jumlah	: 1

Abstraksi

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (2006) reported that in the past year, an estimated 4.1 million persons were newly infected with the disease worldwide, and around 2.8 million died of AIDS. A total of 38.6 million people were estimated to be living with HIV in 2005, and nearly 40 million lives have been claimed since the start of the pandemic in the 1980s. Significance of the problem In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the number of people living with HIV has been increasing tremendously. Although the estimates are based on inadequate and inaccurate data because of underreporting, the number of people reported to have HIV increased from 380,000 in 2000 to 440,000 in 2005. Although the prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS in the MENA region is low (0.2%), this does not mean that the MENA region is at low risk for HIV/AIDS epidemic, in view of the underreporting of cases (Yong Kim, 2002). The problem of HIV/AIDS is steadily growing in Lebanon since the diagnosis of the first case in 1984 (Kalaajieh, 2000). With a prevalence rate of 0.1%, 2000 people were estimated to be infected with HIV in 2001, and 2900 in 2006 (The World Bank, 2005; UNAIDS, 2006; UNAIDS/WHO, 2004). However, by November 2006, only 958 cases of HIV/AIDS were reported to the Lebanese National AIDS Control Program (Ministry of Health, 2007). This discrepancy in the numbers highly reflects the underreporting of HIV/AIDS in the country. Nowadays, with the presence of Highly Active Anti Retroviral Therapy, patients with AIDS are living longer; nevertheless the clinical course of their disease remains unpredictable, thus affecting their quality of life on all levels. The Lebanese culture gives high importance to traditions, social norms, religion, and family values. Taking this into consideration, and the fact that HIV/AIDS is associated with homosexuality, sex workers and injecting drug users, HIV/AIDS patients might be at risk of being rejected by their families, friends and colleagues, losing their jobs, economic deprivation and social isolation (Dahdah, 2005). In fact, in Lebanon heterosexuality was found to account for 47% of HIV/AIDS cases, men having sex with men for 28%, injection drug use for 3%, mother to child transmission for 6.7%, and transmission via blood products for 15.6% (UNAIDS/WHO, 2004). All these factors play a major role in the quality of life of AIDS patients. In Lebanon, there is no reported information about the quality of life of patients living with HIV/AIDS.

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