Living and Working with HIV/AIDS: A Lifelong Process of Adaptation
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Abstract
Advancements in scientific knowledge and pharmacological therapies have led to the suppression of HIV replication in infected individuals and the concomitant recovery of immune function. This, in turn, has prompted a dramatic decline in the morbidity and mortality rates associated with HIV infection (UNAIDS, 2010; Werth, Borges, McNally, Maguire, & Britton, 2008). As a consequence, the majority of people living with HIV (PWHIV) who have access to anti-retroviral therapy and to the appropriate medical followups experience a higher quality of life and longer life expectancy. A study conducted in Denmark estimated the median survival time for a young person diagnosed with HIV today at 38.9 years A primary consequence of this evolution is that PWHIV must learn to adapt to their infection over the long term. The etymology of the verb " to adapt" stems from the Latin roots "ad", which means "towards", and "aptus", which signifies "apt," in the sense of something that is suitable. Therefore, "to adapt" literally means to move towards a suitable outcome or resolution. In the case of HIV/AIDS infection, successful adaptation involves restoring a sense of normalcy to one's everyday life, where "normalcy" is defined by PWHIV according to their perceived needs and situation. This process of adaptation involves numerous aspects, including medical/physical, psychological/affective, social, spiritual and vocational. Therefore, it is crucial to gain an in-depth understanding of how this process of adjustment unfolds. In a n e f f o r t to d e v e l o p s u c h a n u n d e r s t a n d i n g , t h i s c h a p t e r p r e s e n t s a n d d e s c r i b e s a comprehensive theoretical model that accounts for the different aspects of this specific adaptive process. This chapter is divided into two main sections: the first is entitled "living with HIV/AIDS" and the second "working with HIV/AIDS". The former of the two sections is dedicated to developing a comprehensive task-based model of adaptation (CTBMA) to HIV/AIDS that incorporates the following five components: source of stress, cognitive appraisal, adaptive tasks, coping skills and outcome. The latter section describes a very specific adaptive task, the vocational one, that stems from the fact that HIV/AIDS is now categorized as a chronic illness that develops over the long term. Since it is now possible to lead an active life while living with HIV/AIDS, it is pertinent to understand how work helps PWHIV adapt to their infection. www.intechopen.com HIV-Infection -Impact, Awareness and Social Implications of Living with HIV/AIDS 244 How to reference
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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