Abstract: HIV/AIDS has had a devastating impact at individual, household and community levels. AIDS has challenged several aspects of contemporary social life and conventional approaches to health care. The social and medical responses to diseases have probably not been challenged so intensely for a long time. One social response to HIV/AIDS that has received much attention is the counselling of people affected by the disease. This paper reviews pertinent issues that must be considered when counselling people who are affected. These are discussed from the point of view of goals of counselling derived from two different counselling situations: counselling for the prevention of transmission that addresses both infected and non-infected people and counselling for the provision of psychological support for those who are affected. Counselling in HIV/AIDS care is unique but there are similarities and differences between counselling in HIV/AIDS care and counselling for general health promotion. Some of the problems associated with HIV/AIDS counselling in Delhi are presented and some ways of dealing with them are suggested.it also be provides the remarkable approaches of counselling to enhance the life style patters of HIV Positives. This qualitative research investigates the role of HIV Integrated counselling and testing centre (ICTC) and treatment in enabling HIV-positive to cope with this disease. They described experiencing gender-variant stigma and depression on confirming their HIV status and commended the role of counselling in supporting them to adopt positive living.
Keywords: HIV/AIDS counselling, Integrated counselling and testing centre (ICTC).
Title: Counselling is Caring That Goes beyond Curing for HIV Positives
Author: Deepak Sharma, Prof.DD Aggarwal
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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