Legal Issues

2019 ◽  
pp. 525-540
Author(s):  
Jeffrey T. Schouten
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Health Care Settings ◽  
Centers For Disease Control ◽  
Routine Hiv Testing

Upon completion of this chapter, the reader should be able to • Demonstrate knowledge about legal issues surrounding HIV health care and to interact more effectively, professionally, and sensitively with patients and their families. Discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendations for routine HIV testing in various health care settings....

scholarly journals The South Korean Government’s Response to Combat COVID-19 Misinformation: Analysis of “Fact and Issue Check” on the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Website

2021 ◽  
pp. 101053952110147
Author(s):  
Yaena Song ◽  
Linda Ko ◽  
Sou Hyun Jang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Centers For Disease Control

This study aimed to examine the types of misinformation spreading in South Korea during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic by exploring the fact-checking posts uploaded on the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) website. We conducted a content analysis of the posts written on the KCDC website titled, “COVID-19: Fact and Issue Check,” from February to August 2020 (n = 81). Two coders individually coded the posts using a codebook. Discrepancies in coding were discussed to reach reconciliation. Fifteen different Korean government agencies used the KCDC platform to refute various topics of COVID-19 misinformation, including policy (42.0%), how to prevent the spread (16.0%), health care professionals (12.3%), testing (11.1%), prevention (self-care) (9.9%), masks (8.6%), confirmed cases (8.6%), statistics (3.7%), self-quarantine (2.5%), and treatment (1.2%). We found that there are more dissemination and correction of nonmedical areas of COVID-19 misinformation than medical areas in Korea. Future studies need to examine to what extent the corrected COVID-19 misinformation has been disseminated on different social media platforms, beyond the KCDC website.

Stigma, Structural Vulnerability, and “What Matters Most” Among Women Living With HIV in Botswana, 2017

2021 ◽  
pp. e1-e9
Author(s):  
Lawrence H. Yang ◽  
Ohemaa B. Poku ◽  
Supriya Misra ◽  
Haitisha T. Mehta ◽  
Shathani Rampa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Structural Vulnerability ◽  
Women Living With Hiv ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
Women With Hiv ◽  
Routine Hiv Testing ◽  
What Matters

Objectives. To explore whether beneficial health care policies, when implemented in the context of gender inequality, yield unintended structural consequences that stigmatize and ostracize women with HIV from “what matters most” in local culture. Methods. We conducted 46 in-depth interviews and 5 focus groups (38 individuals) with men and women living with and without HIV in Gaborone, Botswana, in 2017. Results. Cultural imperatives to bear children bring pregnant women into contact with free antenatal services including routine HIV testing, where their HIV status is discovered before their male partners’. National HIV policies have therefore unintentionally reinforced disadvantage among women with HIV, whereby men delay or avoid testing by using their partner’s status as a proxy for their own, thus facilitating blame toward women diagnosed with HIV. Gossip then defines these women as “promiscuous” and as violating the essence of womanhood. We identified cultural and structural ways to resist stigma for these women. Conclusions. Necessary HIV testing during antenatal care has inadvertently perpetuated a structural vulnerability that propagates stigma toward women. Individual- and structural-level interventions can address stigma unintentionally reinforced by health care policies. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print June 10, 2021: e1–e9. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306274 )

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