Open AccessPsychosocial Issues of Children Infected with HIV/AIDS
Author(s) -
MN Vranda,
S. N. Mothi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.112195
Subject(s) - psychosocial , multidisciplinary approach , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , multidisciplinary team , psychosocial support , population , medicine , family medicine , psychiatry , psychology , nursing , environmental health , sociology , social science
The chronic medical conditions in the paediatric population pose a range of potential psychosocial challenges not only to the child, but also to the family members and health care providers. This paper comprehensively reviews the psychosocial issues of children infected with HIV and AIDS and offer some of the strategies to address the issues comprehensively by multidisciplinary team.