Lost to Care

posted: 25/11/2009

People diagnosed with HIV who drop out of HIV clinics was first highlighted as national issue by George House Trust in Insight this year. Now people lost to clinics and care is covered in more detail in an excellent leading article in the latest issue of NAM's HIV Treatment Update.

'Lost to Care - the mystery of the disappearing patients' by George House Trust policy expert Chris Morley and editor of HIV Treatment Update Gus Cairns, tells why up to 1 in 3 people disappear from HIV care at some stage after diagnosis, whether this puts people’s lives in danger, and it offers some suggestions for how to deal with clinic drop out.

Stigma too
The same issue has an article on HIV stigma – Punching Fog. It tells how people with HIV telling their own stigma experiences through the UK section of the global website HIV Stigma Index is helping the stigma fight-back.

HIV Treatment Update

People living with HIV can get HIV Treatment Update free, others have to subscribe and pay; this issue (November 2009) will be published in a few months in the online archive, also on that webpage.