De HIV-drabbade och vården : En litteraturöversikt om bemötandet av HIV- drabbade personer

Sammanfattning: Background: HIV is one of the biggest global epidemics. Historically the HIV-infected persons have faced a discriminative and stigmatizing attitude inside the health care-sector. That form of negative reception has been seen as one of the biggest obstacles to decrease the spread of HIV and to create an equal healthcare sector. Aim: The aim is to highlight how HIV-infected persons experience the reception from health care professionals in countries with low prevalence of HIV. Method: A literature review with nine scientific articles, seven articles were qualitative, one was quantitative and one with mixed method. Results: Two main topics arised: The negative reception and The positive reception. The HIV-infected are still experiencing situations where they are treated with a stigmatized and discriminative attitude from the health care-professionals. The result, however, indicates that the reception has improved. The HIV-infected experienced that the positive interactions widely exceeded the negative. Conclusion: HIV-stigmatization is still a major issue within the health care sector. The HIV- infected, however, experience the stigmatizing reception in more isolated cases today and the positive reception widely exceeded the negative stigmatizing reception. The HIV-infected experienced health care professionals with high knowledge to give a better reception.