Health And Longevity Of Plwshas

In today’s society there are people who still have to fight every day for equality. As a country we have overcome discrimination against minority groups having equal treatment, women being able to vote and have a voice, and even having an African American man as the first president of the United States of America. But with so many of these accomplishments we will still have discrimination that causes some Americans not to feel equal. The lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgendered community, African Americans, and women are still effect by discrimination and, even more so, people living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome positive diagnoses suffer from unfair and unethical treatment by health care providers.
This effects there quality of care by health providers who are in direct and indirect contact with them. Learning, knowing and, understanding the disease would decrease of discrimination and increase the access of care and quality of care for these people. This is not only a problem that is happening in our own backyards but also globally. Health care providers such as doctors, nurses, techs all play a key role of the access of care for maintaining health and longevity of PLWHAs.
In this research paper we will understand what exactly HIV/AIDs is, see different studies about perceived stigma and discrimination among health care providers, and get a view of how people with HIV/AIDS feel about the treatment they receive. Our country has come a long way to erase discrimination, inequality, and unethical treatment, but we still have much further way to go. The first step is knowing and understanding what the problem or concern is. Then we must knock down those walls of unjust treatment, and finally come together to make the change for equality.
What is HIV and
Some student’s spend four years, or more, majoring in nursing, biology, chemistry, then spend another four years to become a nurse practitioner or doctor. Within those eight years of studying long hours there had to be a topic on HIV/AIDS. This subject is highly known globally in hospitals, clinics, schools, and other medical facilities, so why are there many health care professionals so reluctant on giving quality care to those living with HIV/AIDS? Because you are educated on the topic wouldn’t that eliminate some of the stereotypes and discrimination?
Health care providers signed an oath to provide social and psychological support to those that they are caring for, and those include, but not limited to people living with HIV/AIDS. But, “there have been many reports from healthcare settings of HIV testing without consent, breaches of confidentiality, labeling, gossip, verbal harassment, differential treatment and even denial of treatment” (Feyissa, Abebe, Girma, & Woldie, 2012). To do any of these things is not only wrong but very