World Health Organization : Year 1993 ; World Health Organization, Global Programme on Aids Ids Hcs, No. 93.2: Global Programme on AIDS AIDS Home Care Handbook

By World Health Organization

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1993 ; World Health Organization, Global Programme on Aids Ids Hcs, No. 93.2: Global Programme on AIDS AIDS Home Care Handbook
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Introduction Who can use this handbook? The handbook is designed to be used by health care workers. In this handbook, the term health care workers includes staff in clinics or hospitals, and village or community health workers who are in direct contact with people with AIDS and their families. The handbook can also be used by social workers and those involved in HIV/AIDS counselling. As a health care worker in any of these categories you can use this handbook when providing home care yourself or when teaching others to give such care. What is home care? In this handbook, home care means any form of care given to sick people in their own homes. It can mean the things people might do to take care of themselves or the care given to them by the family or health care worker. Care includes physical, psychosocial and spiritual activities. The term family is used to refer to the person (or people) with the main responsibility for caring for a person with AIDS in the home. In fact, the person providing such care may be a blood relative, a relative by marriage (a spouse for example), a friend, a neighbour or some other person. How can you use this handbook? This handbook is divided into two parts: Part I Part I of this handbook is a teaching guide which is intended to help you to provide important information about HIV and AIDS to the community, to the

Table of Contents
Table of Contents Acknowledgements ........................................ i Preface ........................................................ iii Introduction .................................................... I Whocanusethishandbook? ................................................. 1 What is home care? ........................................................ 1 How can you use this handbook? ............................................. 1 Part I: Teaching Guide Chapter One: Teaching people with AIDS and their families .............. 7 Whomshouldyouteach? ................................................... 8 Why is teaching important? ................................................. 9 Stories about teaching ...................................................... 9 What is teaching? ......................................................... 12 What are the benefits of teaching? ........................................... 13 Whatshouldyouteach? ................................................... 13 Howshouldyouteach? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 More stories about teaching ................................................ 17 Chapter Two: From HlV to AIDS ................................... 19 A story: Yulia and Mukasa ................................................. 21 Teaching notes on HIV and AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 What are HIV and AIDS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Box 1: Ways in which HIV is transmitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 How can you avoid AIDS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Box 2: What is safer sex?. ...................................................... 32 How do you use condoms to prevent pregnancy and HlV transmission? ........... 33