PYC2605 HIV Aids Care and Counselling module_study_guide complete

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Welcome to your HIV/Aids Care and Counselling module (v)

Introduction and overview (vii)

THEME 1: Knowing the Challenge 1
Learning unit 1: HIV and Aids: A brief history 2
Learning unit 2: HIV and the immune system 10
Learning unit 3: Transmission and prevention 19
Learning unit 4: HIV-associated symptoms and diseases 35
Learning unit 5: HIV tests 51
Learning unit 6: Antiretroviral therapy 62

THEME 2: Aids Education and Empowerment 83
Learning unit 7: Theories of Behaviour Change 84
Learning unit 8: Aids Education 93
Learning unit 9: Changing unsafe practices 101
Learning unit 10: Aids education for school children 109
Learning unit 11: Aids education in traditional Africa 122

THEME 3: HIV Counselling 131
Learning unit 12: Counselling principles and skills 132
Learning unit 13: HIV counselling and testing 145
Learning unit 14: Ongoing counselling 157
Learning unit 15: Bereavement counselling 167
Learning unit 16: Spiritual counselling and the meaning of life 175

THEME 4: Care and Support 183
Learning unit 17: Community and home based care 184
Learning unit 18: Orphans and vulnerable children 193
Learning unit 19: Infection control 204
Learning unit 20: Care and nursing principles 215
Learning unit 21: Care for the caregiver 225

THEME 5: Legal and Practical issues 233
Learning unit 22: Aids and the law 234
Learning unit 23: Aids in the workplace 245



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