Teresa L. Scheid - Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS: Community-Based Strategies

A comprehensive health care system consists of services that are coordinated and integrated along the full continuum of care. For HIV patients, this includes physical health care, infectious disease management, crisis care, mental health care, substance abuse counseling, and social support services including housing, transportation, subsistence, and supports for dealing with multiple sources of stigma. This book highlights the dilemmas faced in delivering comprehensive, integrated care to individuals living with HIV, providing both an understanding of existing efforts to integrate diverse systems of care, as well as insight into ways in which systems of care must be challenged in order to meet the needs of people living with HIV. Comprehensive care for HIV/AIDS is the result of collaborative work with the county Health Department, numerous community-based organizations, and several planning boards in a metropolitan area, which have sought to provide integrated care to people living with HIV. It will be a valuable resource to the diverse community of HIV researchers, advocates, and providers.

Teresa L. Scheid is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with appointments in Public Policy, Public Health, and Health Services Research.

1 Researching Trust and Health

Edited by Julie Brownlie, Alexandra Greene and Alexandra Howson

2 Health, Illness and Culture

Broken Narratives

Edited by Lars-Christer Hydn and Jens Brockmeier

3 Biopolitics and the Obesity Epidemic

Governing Bodies

Edited by Jan Wright and Valerie Harwood

4 Globalization and Health

Pathways, Evidence and Policy

Edited by Ronald Labont, Ted Schrecker, Corinne Packer, and Vivien Runnels

5 Gender Equity in Health

The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action

Edited by Gita Sen and Piroska stlin

6 Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People

Edited by Christine Ceci, Kristn Bjrnsdttir and Mary Ellen Purkis

7 Transnational Social Support

Edited by Adrienne Chambon, Wolfgang Schrer and Cornelia Schweppe

8 The Transformation of Contemporary Health Care

The Market, the Laboratory, and the Forum

Tiago Moreira

9 Children with Gender Identity Disorder

A Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Analysis

Simona Giordano

10 Social Housing in Transition Countries

Edited by Jzsef Hegeds, Martin Lux and Nra Teller

11 Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing

Social Justice as Praxis

Edited by Paula N. Kagan, Marlaine C. Smith and Peggy L. Chinn

12 Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS

Community-Based Strategies

Teresa L. Scheid