15th International AIDS Conference Bangkok, Thailand - July 11-16, 2004

Int Conf AIDS 2004 Jul 11-16; 15:(abstract no. D10141)

Arulmony T
Hospital MMHRC, Madurai, India

ISSUES: Women who are living with HIV/AIDS are not receiving proper treatment from hospitals due to their socio, cultural and economic status victimize to high rate of infection compare with men. The women get infected due to their male partners pay good care and attention while the male partners hospitalized. And during the hospitalization also the women stay with the male partners but in the case of women the men deserted and stay away.

DESCRIPTION: In the Mother Theresa Care Centre for PLWHAs we have provided treatment for more than 10,000 PLWHAs. Here Home care, Clinical Management, Nursing care, counseling, networking of PLWHAs and rehabilitation services are provided at free of cost. Still date the details of patients availed services are as follows. Sex In patients availed services Out patients availed servicesMale 67.6 % 61.24%Female 31.00% 37.82%Children 1.40 0.94%Majority of the house wifes received the virus from their male partners. This percentage is also due to counseling inputs given for f emale and motivating male partners by the medical professionals and counselors. Lesson Learned: The women are not only neglected in other area of rights but even in the case of PLWHAs when they are in critical condition with AIDS. Counseling and personal home visits to the community will bring changes and save those women suffering with the HIV/AIDS infection.

RECOMMENDATIONS: The need for their treatment at home context and at hospital for their opportunistic infections and with ARV must be ensured with minimum cost or at free of cost with counselling at the patients primary contacts

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