Annotated Bibliography: Voluntary Counselling and Testing

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Aid for persons with AIDS (1883). Australian Journal of Sex, Marriage and Family, 6, 183-
Abstract: We hesitate to add to the media splurge on the Acquired Immunity Deficiency
Syndrome, but we do so for two reasons. First, many of our readers will probably find themselves
counselling persons with AIDS at least occasionally and may feel the need for some clarification
about it. Second, it seems to us that the emotional and social needs of the person with AIDS are
all too often overlooked. What follows therefore is a brief statement of the main facts at present
known about AIDS, and some comments on its psychosocial aspects.
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HIV counselling: Its nature and purpose (1980). In - (- ed., pp. 27-35). -: -.
Keywords: education/guidelines/health/health education/information/prevention/primary
prevention/risk behaviour/secondary prevention/transmission
Abstract: HIV/AIDS counselling is aimed at providing psychosocial support and preventing HIV
infection. Psychosocial support is necessary because a diagnosis of HIV infection confronts
people with a host of emotional and/or practical problems. Counselling is of vital importance in
overcoming resistance to making the changes in behaviour that are necessary if risk is to be
avoided and transmission prevented. Counselling in the context of prevention can make the form
of primary prevention, intended for people at risk but not known to be infected. Primary
prevention focuses on risk behaviour, while the main emphasis in secondary prevention is on
preventing transmission. Counselling implies education but, unlike health education, is directed
towards the specific needs arising from HIV infection. It also involves communication: however, it
differs form casual conversation in that the information exchanged and obtained is specific,
focused, and serves a purpose.
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