Ethical issues related to HIV/AIDS: case reports

A qualitative exploration of HIV-positive pregnant women's decision-making regarding abortion in Cape Town, South Africa

“…These findings stand in contrast to discussions in the literature on the potential for overt or covert discriminatory attitudes by health care providers to partly shape women's reproductive choices (London et al, 2008). Unlike identified in other studies (Cooper et al, 2007b;Harries, Orner, Gabriel & Mitchell, 2007;Meel, 2005), this study suggested that healthcare workers did not hold HIV-specific judgmental and discriminatory attitudes regarding HIV-positive women's reproductive intentions. This is not to say that providers were not discriminatory towards respondents -they were, signified by repeated references to providers' judgemental attitudes towards women seeking an abortion.…”

A qualitative exploration of HIV-positive pregnant women's decision-making regarding abortion in Cape Town, South Africa

“…These findings stand in contrast to discussions in the literature on the potential for overt or covert discriminatory attitudes by health care providers to partly shape women's reproductive choices (London et al, 2008). Unlike identified in other studies (Cooper et al, 2007b;Harries, Orner, Gabriel & Mitchell, 2007;Meel, 2005), this study suggested that healthcare workers did not hold HIV-specific judgmental and discriminatory attitudes regarding HIV-positive women's reproductive intentions. This is not to say that providers were not discriminatory towards respondents -they were, signified by repeated references to providers' judgemental attitudes towards women seeking an abortion.…”

Prevalence of Myths and False Beliefs Regarding HIV/AIDS among Xhosa Community in the Transkei Region of South Africa

“…Responsibility of the employers to their HIV/ AIDS employees at workplace, choice of termination of pregnancy when a woman is HIV positive, attitude of health care provider to their HIV infected patients, informed consent for taking blood to protect from transmission of infection in a case of accidental prick, and forced resignation from employment. 14 There is a general belief that illness (HIV/AIDS) and other bad occurrences are related to witchcraft. The illness is difficult for them to believe and to be explained.…”

Access to safe abortion: building choices for women living with HIV and AIDS

“…In South Africa, PLHIV have reported judgemental and discriminatory attitudes by healthcare workers regarding their reproductive intentions [45,46]. Moreover, some WLHIV in the KwaZulu-Natal Province reported being both actively dissuaded from accessing public health abortion services and afraid to ask for an abortion at these facilities [47].…”

A qualitative exploration of HIV-positive pregnant women's decision-making regarding abortion in Cape Town, South Africa

“…These findings stand in contrast to discussions in the literature on the potential for overt or covert discriminatory attitudes by health care providers to partly shape women's reproductive choices (London et al, 2008). Unlike identified in other studies (Cooper et al, 2007b;Harries, Orner, Gabriel & Mitchell, 2007;Meel, 2005), this study suggested that healthcare workers did not hold HIV-specific judgmental and discriminatory attitudes regarding HIV-positive women's reproductive intentions. This is not to say that providers were not discriminatory towards respondents -they were, signified by repeated references to providers' judgemental attitudes towards women seeking an abortion.…”

Prevalence of Myths and False Beliefs Regarding HIV/AIDS among Xhosa Community in the Transkei Region of South Africa

“…Responsibility of the employers to their HIV/ AIDS employees at workplace, choice of termination of pregnancy when a woman is HIV positive, attitude of health care provider to their HIV infected patients, informed consent for taking blood to protect from transmission of infection in a case of accidental prick, and forced resignation from employment. 14 There is a general belief that illness (HIV/AIDS) and other bad occurrences are related to witchcraft. The illness is difficult for them to believe and to be explained.…”

Access to safe abortion: building choices for women living with HIV and AIDS

“…In South Africa, PLHIV have reported judgemental and discriminatory attitudes by healthcare workers regarding their reproductive intentions [45,46]. Moreover, some WLHIV in the KwaZulu-Natal Province reported being both actively dissuaded from accessing public health abortion services and afraid to ask for an abortion at these facilities [47].…”

A qualitative exploration of HIV-positive pregnant women's decision-making regarding abortion in Cape Town, South Africa

“…These findings stand in contrast to discussions in the literature on the potential for overt or covert discriminatory attitudes by health care providers to partly shape women's reproductive choices (London et al, 2008). Unlike identified in other studies (Cooper et al, 2007b;Harries, Orner, Gabriel & Mitchell, 2007;Meel, 2005), this study suggested that healthcare workers did not hold HIV-specific judgmental and discriminatory attitudes regarding HIV-positive women's reproductive intentions. This is not to say that providers were not discriminatory towards respondents -they were, signified by repeated references to providers' judgemental attitudes towards women seeking an abortion.…”

Prevalence of Myths and False Beliefs Regarding HIV/AIDS among Xhosa Community in the Transkei Region of South Africa

“…Responsibility of the employers to their HIV/ AIDS employees at workplace, choice of termination of pregnancy when a woman is HIV positive, attitude of health care provider to their HIV infected patients, informed consent for taking blood to protect from transmission of infection in a case of accidental prick, and forced resignation from employment. 14 There is a general belief that illness (HIV/AIDS) and other bad occurrences are related to witchcraft. The illness is difficult for them to believe and to be explained.…”

Access to safe abortion: building choices for women living with HIV and AIDS

“…In South Africa, PLHIV have reported judgemental and discriminatory attitudes by healthcare workers regarding their reproductive intentions [45,46]. Moreover, some WLHIV in the KwaZulu-Natal Province reported being both actively dissuaded from accessing public health abortion services and afraid to ask for an abortion at these facilities [47].…”