Can Health Care Worker Choose Not To Work With You If You Have Hiv

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Considering HIV Treatment

Table of Contents Are You Ready? The Right Health Care Provider Knowledge About HIV A Positive Attitude Are You Ready? Treatment with HIV drugs can improve quality of life and help people living with HIV (HIV-positive people) stay healthier longer. But starting treatment is a big decision. In order to get the most benefit from HIV drugs, they must be used just the way they are prescribed. Taking your treatment correctly is as...

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When working as a volunteer health care worker, is it possible I contracted the HIV virus?

Two summers ago I volunteered in a developing country. I work mostly in a clinic for men and women living with HIV and AIDS. I often had to change incontinent residents and their soiled bedsheets. I would also have to lift them up while another...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,What do I think? I think you are a compassionate, generous, warm-hearted, loving individual who deserves our utmost praise and appreciation. I also think you have racked up enormous amounts of excellent cosmic karma that should provide you with a... Read more »

As an HIV positive health care worker do I have to disclose?

Hi. I'm a medical professional and newly diagnosed with HIV. I'm actually a resident. I'm wondering what the laws are in regard to whether I have to disclose my status to my residency program and to the state medical board? I do...

Response from Christa Douaihy, Esq.

Member, City of NY Bar Association Committee on AIDS

Thank you for asking whether, as a health care worker, you have a duty to disclose your status. In general, according to case law and professional practice guidelines, health care workers have a duty to inform patients or employers that they are... Read more »

Significant Exposure - Health Care Workers

I work in an Occ.Med. Clinic. We provide for several state health care sites. Recently, when their employes are seen in the hospital ED for work related exposures,the ED doctor has been calling scratches a significant exposure. We know this is not...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Marsha. Thank you for your question. I'm limiting this discussion tooccupational exposures to blood, including possible occupational exposures toHIV, and Hepatitis B. Body fluids like sputum, saliva, urine, sweat, andtears are low risk for... Read more »

Health Care worker that is very worried

I work in an emergency room department as an ER tech and one of my responsibilities is to clean the suture kits after use before they go to be sterilized. Well what happened was I was scrubbing down a pair of scissors that had been soaking in this...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,The HIV-acquisition risk from the occupational incident you describe is nonexistent.Dr. Bob... Read more »

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i am a health care worker...

Posted by Anonymous

I am a health care worker in Baltimore. Every other patient that
I come into contact with in my clinic is an HIV or AIDS patient.
I would like everyone who has this disease to know that I pray
for a cure everyday, and do my best to help those who... Read more »

BEBASHI Care Outreach Worker--Philadelphia

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Care Outreach Worker--Philadelphia

BA or related degree in human services or high school diploma.
Experience with street outreach programs desired. Experience working
with minority populations on issues related to HIV/AIDS. Case
management/counseling... Read more »

Bilingual MSM Outreach Worker

Posted by Anonymous

AIDS Project New Haven
Bilingual MSM Outreach Worker

Non-traditional outreach to Latino MSM in bars and cruising areas. Get HIV+ Latino MSM into care and treatment,and provide prevention education to those uninfected. Facilitate multi-session gay... Read more »

choosing to live with hiv...

Posted by Anonymous

Choosing to Live With HIV/AIDS 1997 By Rev. Alexander R.
Garbera, MA,MSC As a long term survivor of HIV/AIDS, I am still
perplexed by this disease and the social structures that surround
it. Over fifteen years into this pandemic, people are still
be... Read more »

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