AIDS Assistance Availability

Essay # 63074

Aging > Gerontology
Medical and Health
Sociology

This is a research paper that looks at the availability of AIDS/HIV programs in rural areas versus those available in urban areas.

1,336 words () | 6 sources | MLA | 2005 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how there are a lot of barriers to access of health care programs for people who are living with HIV/AIDS such as transportation, finance and caregiving. This paper contends that people in rural areas need to have this specialized care closer to where they live in order to manage the disease and go on with living.

From the Paper:

"According to the authors of Barriers to accessing HIV/AIDS care in North Carolina: rural and urban differences, "studies of the etiology of unmet needs among HIV-infected individuals found that most problems were externally controlled such as a lack of available services, HIV-related stigma and discrimination, and long travel distances to services," (Reif, Golin and Smith, 2005). The researchers administered a self-administered survey to every case manager in North Carolina. Some of the questions in the survey were in regards to the area that they serve so they can distinguish between metropolitan areas and non metropolitan areas. Respondents to the survey were asked to respond to several questions including case manager and client characteristics and service barriers that may influence medication adherence. "