HIV/AIDS Prevention

HIV clinician fatalism hinders 'prevention for positives' counseling

Published in AIDS Weekly, August 2nd, 2004

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers have found that some physicians express a sense of fatalism about HIV prevention and this belief - that changes in sexual risk behavior by their HIV-positive patients are unlikely - is hindering the provision of prevention counseling services in publicly funded clinics.

"This research suggests that attitudinal barriers among providers will need to be addressed in order for the new 'prevention with positives' initiative from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to achieve fully its goal of reducing sexual risk behaviors by HIV-positive patients," said the study's lead author, Wayne T. Steward, PhD, MPH,...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2004-08-02)

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