Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2018
Abstract
A number of people with human immunodeficiency virus infection (Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV) are still rising in the Czech Republic. Specialists now consider HIV to be a chronic illness.
For each newly diagnosed patient, however, diagnosis is an interference with his or her life. HIV infection does not compromise only the area of health but it also socially stigmatizes.
A nurse can play a positive role in helping the newly diagnosed Hiv-positive patients.