[Living and building a life with HIV]

Pascale Lassus

doi:10.1016/j.soin.2019.02.009

[Living and building a life with HIV]

Soins. 2019 Apr;64(834):44-45. doi: 10.1016/j.soin.2019.02.009.

[Article in French]

Author

Pascale Lassus¹

Affiliation

¹ c/o Soins, Elsevier Masson SAS, 65, rue Camille-Desmoulins, 92442 Issy-les-Moulineaux cedex, France. Electronic address: soins@elsevier.com.

PMID: 31023468
DOI: 10.1016/j.soin.2019.02.009

Abstract

In the 1980s, a young woman learns by chance that she has been HIV-positive for several years. Her world falls apart. The poor prognosis, the fear of having passed on the virus to her daughter, other people's judgements and complex treatments become a daily ordeal. Today, not only is her condition stable thanks to therapeutic advances, she also has a healthy grandson. Here, she shares her story.

Keywords: HIV; VIH; contamination; mother-to-child transmission; transmission mère-enfant.

MeSH terms

Adaptation, Psychological*
Fear
Female
HIV Seropositivity / psychology*
HIV Seropositivity / therapy
Humans
Narration
Treatment Outcome