Sökning: "HIV AIDS prevention education"

Visar resultat 6 - 9 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden HIV AIDS prevention education.

1. 6. Visualising the invisible : exploring interactive video in HIV prevention in rural Zambia

   Författare :Solveig Freudenthal; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :HIV prevention; interactive video; applied anthropology; method development; AIDS education; international public health; Zambia;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to explore and develop video as an interactive method that can be used in HIV prevention, in order to facilitate reflexivity, communication and dialogue about HIV/AIDS among people. In this context, interactive video means that a study population and the researcher interact, collaborate, and communicate during a video production and postproduction process: in the planning, performing, editing, viewing and discussing the recorded scenes. LÄS MER

3. 7. The interface between biomedical and traditional health practitioners in STI and HIV/AIDS care : study on intersectoral collaboration in Zambia

   Författare :Berthollet Bwira Kaboru; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Traditional medicine; health practitioners; collaboration; multisectoralism; integrative medicine; STI; HIV; AIDS; Zambia.;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore potential opportunities for and obstacles to collaboration between biomedical and traditional health practitioners (BHPs and THPs) and to test a dialogue nurturing intervention in order to improve attitudes and increase collaborative activities pertinent for STIs and HIV/AIDS care in Zambia. The specific objectives were: to explore the local communities views on prerequisites (or preconditions) to collaboration between biomedical and traditional health providers with regards to STIs and HIV/AIDS care (I); to explore BHPs and THPs' experiences of and attitudes toward collaboration and to identify obstacles and potential opportunities for them to collaborate with regard to care for patients with STIs and HIV/AIDS (II); to explore biomedical and traditional health practitioners perceptions of good STIs and HIV/AIDS care and their opinions on weaknesses in the services they provide to patients with STIs and HIV/AIDS (III); to assess the changes in attitudes to and practices of collaboration among a set of BHPs and THPs following a participatory intervention in the Zambian city of Ndola, focusing on STIs and HIV/AIDS care (IV). LÄS MER

4. 8. Young adults in urban Pakistan : barriers and challenges for improving health behaviors in the wake of the HIV/AIDS epidemic

   Författare :Syed Farid-ul Hasnain; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Young adults; dropouts; knowledge and awareness; HIV AIDS; STDs; family planning; gender roles; life prospects; Karachi;

   Sammanfattning : Background: HIV/AIDS is spreading globally more specifically among the younger generation. The impact of HIV/AIDS on the youth cannot be underestimated. According to the UNAIDS report 2008; an estimated number of 33 million people around the globe were living with HIV in 2007, and overall, 2. LÄS MER

5. 9. Assessment of patients with late diagnosis and missed opportunities in the Swedish HIV-1 epidemic

   Författare :Johanna Brännström; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Sammanfattning : Discovered in 1983, with a possibility to diagnose since 1985, and with efficient treatment existing now for two decades, HIV-1 still ranks among the top ten causes of death globally. Approximately 40 million people are living with HIV-1 worldwide; almost half still not diagnosed. LÄS MER