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Disclosure of HIV Status
"This brochure discusses reasons for disclosure, problems that may be encountered, how to tell someone your status, and particularly issues with partners and caregivers."
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Medical Appointments (2005)
This fact sheet provides practical advice on how to prepare for an office visit and how to get the info you seek from your provider.
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Telling Others that I am HIV Positive
"This brochure discusses reasons for disclosure, problems that may be encountered, how to tell someone your status, and particular issues with partners and caregivers."
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The dynamics of disclosure (2003)
Part of a series. This factsheet came out of a larger project looking at newly diagnosed HIV positive gay men and peer networks. It addresses the role of HIV positive peers in working out attitudes towards disclosure and how this reflects the principle that we can learn a lot from listening to and thinking about each other's experiences.
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There's Something I Need to Tell You...A step-by-step guide to telling your partners that they may have HIV (2004)
"This booklet helps PLHA to weight the pros and cons of talking to sex and needlesharing partners personally, helps to make a step-by-step plan for talking to partners, and tells about other ways to let partners know that they should get tested for HIV if PLHA do not want to personally tell them."
URL(s): PDF  
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Thinking about telling: A story about the partner assistance program (in Spanish) (2004)
This Spanish photo novella depicts the story of an HIV + man talking with his provider about disclosure and then talking with a health department counselor about why he might want to disclosure.
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs in partnership with
Academy for Educational Development " Save the Children " The International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

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