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Integration of HIV positive people to society: HIV/AIDS in Turkey and socioethical reflections



DOI :
New J Urol. 2013; 8 (1): 50-54

Abstract

The emergence of AIDS in societies ca-used an anxious interest in the disease, as co-uld be observed in the reportedly first HIV case of Turkey. The ethical and social analysis of the perception of HIV/AIDS will be incomp-lete without assessing the first reaction of the society upon meeting with an unknown disea-se. The attitude of the healthcare professionals, the first group facing the new epidemic disea-ses, is important with respect to the medical et-hics. The average level of HIV/AIDS knowled-ge and awareness of the Turkish people is below the ideal level; and the HIV positive people have been stigmatized, excluded, censured and trea-ted with fear from the first day till today. For the integration of the people with HIV to the soci-ety without experiencing psychological and so-cial problems, the facts concerning HIV/AIDS should be addressed with the public more fre-quently and in a straightforward manner, thus normalizing the marginalized word of AIDS.

Key Words: HIV/AIDS; AIDS and confi-dentiality; AIDS in Turkey; AIDS and ethics.


Abstract

The emergence of AIDS in societies ca-used an anxious interest in the disease, as co-uld be observed in the reportedly first HIV case of Turkey. The ethical and social analysis of the perception of HIV/AIDS will be incomp-lete without assessing the first reaction of the society upon meeting with an unknown disea-se. The attitude of the healthcare professionals, the first group facing the new epidemic disea-ses, is important with respect to the medical et-hics. The average level of HIV/AIDS knowled-ge and awareness of the Turkish people is below the ideal level; and the HIV positive people have been stigmatized, excluded, censured and trea-ted with fear from the first day till today. For the integration of the people with HIV to the soci-ety without experiencing psychological and so-cial problems, the facts concerning HIV/AIDS should be addressed with the public more fre-quently and in a straightforward manner, thus normalizing the marginalized word of AIDS.

Key Words: HIV/AIDS; AIDS and confi-dentiality; AIDS in Turkey; AIDS and ethics.