Find resources relating to HIV and AIDS and pertaining to suicide and suicide prevention.
| 'HIV stigma' drives India suicide - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5141100.stm Discover this BBC News item that reports a 15-year-old Indian boy, whose parents had HIV, was driven to suicide by the stigma associated with the virus. - [Read more] |
| Body, The - After a Suicide - http://www.thebody.com/bp/mar02/suicide.html Offers an article by Dr. J. Buzz von Ornsteiner that is subtitled "Trying to Make Sense of the Senseless." - [Read more] |
| Cambodia-suicide: AIDS-ridden Cambodian torches himself in city center - http://www.aegis.com/news/afp/2000/AF000133.html Article reveals a man who feared he was infected with AIDS after a local hospital refused to buy his blood set himself ablaze in the center of the Cambodian capital. - [Read more] |
| Contracting HIV. . . A Suicide Problem? - http://www.youth-suicide.com/gay-bisexual/news/aids.htm Read this resource that shares contracting HIV may be a form of suicide for some Gay and Bisexual male youth. - [Read more] |
| Depression and suicidality in HIV/AIDS in China - http://www.hnrc.ucsd.edu/publications_pdf/2006jinh1.pdf#search=%22hiv%20suicide%22 Details this pilot study that examined rates of major depression and suicidality and their associations with daily functioning in HIV infected (HIV+) and uninfected (HIV−) persons in China. - [Read more] |
| HIV & Psychiatry: Suicide and HIV Disease - http://www.go2itech.org/itech?page=db-02-00&id=50124-07&type=ta&bkto=db-02-00&bktopost=1&p-name=ta&p-value=114 Discover this resource that is part of HIV & Psychiatry: A Training and Resource Manual. - [Read more] |
| HIV Seroprevalence Among Suicide Victims in New York City, 1991–1993 - http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/154/12/1720.pdf#search=%22hiv%20suicide%22 Offers a study to determine the HIC seroprevalence among suicide victims in NYC. View results shared. - [Read more] |
| HIV-positive Cambodian woman commits suicide - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDP/is_2000_March_27/ai_61543814 Browse to find this Find Article resource that details a woman committed suicide after learning she was HIV-positive and more than 30 men who had slept with her may also have contracted the virus. - [Read more] |
| JAMA - Suicide and HIV infection - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/276/21/1743 Offers an abstract of a mortality follow-up of 4,147 HIV-seropositive military service applicants. See results. - [Read more] |
| NCBI - AIDS and suicide - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7595269&dopt=Abstract JT Kirchner present the case of a 27-year-old man who committed suicide approximately 2 years after he received a diagnosis of AIDS. He had no previous psychiatric history. - [Read more] |
| NCBI - Suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and HIV infection - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9775697&dopt=Abstract Shares an abstract of a study carried out by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. - [Read more] |
| NCBI - Suicide and HIV disease - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8110854&dopt=Abstract Offers an abstract of a case report prepared by the Academic Department of Psychiatry, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Westminster Hospital, London, UK. - [Read more] |
| Rational Suicide and HIV Disease - http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1993/AD931471.html Notes suicidal inclinations among AIDS patients are extremely common as the patients constantly reevaluate the quality of their lives. - [Read more] |
| South Africa’s Aids apartheid - http://mondediplo.com/2002/08/04aids Article by Philippe Rivière shares "If you say you’re HIV positive they treat you worse than an animal. You can’t even go out of the house. Many commit suicide." - [Read more] |
| Suicidality In Patients With HIV/AIDS - http://www.hivguidelines.org/GuideLine.aspx?pageID=261&guideLineID=45 Become familiar with this HIV Clinical Resource that shares rimary care practitioners should be prepared to assess their patients' risk of suicide, evaluate their suicidal intent, and offer appropriate treatment. - [Read more] |
| Suicide and HIV - http://www.psych.org/aids/modules/mood/sld064.htm Slideshow reveals exploration of suicidal ideation is essential and psychotherapy helps increase sense of control and quality of life. - [Read more] |
| Suicide and HIV/AIDS in Transkei, South Africa - http://www.geradts.com/anil/ij/vol_004_no_001/papers/paper001.html Study reveals there has been a one and half times increase in suicidal deaths (e.g. by hanging), and in deaths from gunshot injuries (which may or may not be suicidal). Fatal poisoning, possibly suicidal, has increased five-fold. - [Read more] |
