Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care articles from September 1997

Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care archives from September 1997

The Office of National AIDS Policy: a new director offers new hope.
September 1, 1997... The election of President Clinton in 1992 brought new hope and elevated anticipation for persons living with HIV infections and those working in HIV/AIDS care. There was hope that the devastation of HIV/AIDS finally would be acknowledged at...

Needle and syringe exchange: pride and prejudice.
September 1, 1997... Editor's Note: The purpose of this column is to inform readers about HIV prevention issues, including topics related to new and developing technologies, educational strategies, historical perspectives, applications of theoretical models,...

Psychosocial predictors of life satisfaction among persons living with HIV infection and AIDS.
September 1, 1997... As AIDS becomes a more chronic but manageable illness, understanding quality of life issues among persons living with this disease has become an important goal of health care researchers. However most quality of life investigations of...

HIV RNA quantitation: marker of HIV infection.
September 1, 1997... Assessment of the status and prognosis of an HIV-infected individual traditionally has been difficult for the clinician. The use of markers of disease progression such as CD4+ has been found to not be a complete indicator of the status of an...

Assessment and interventions. (Malnutrition associated with HIV/AIDS, part 2)
September 1, 1997... Editor's Note: Kathleen McMahon Casey presented the definition and scope, epidemiology, and pathophysiology of malnutrition associated with HIV/AIDS in JANAC (Vol. 8, No. 3). This second article on malnutrition associated with HIV/AIDS...

Characteristics of volunteer participants in phase I HIV vaccine trials.
September 1, 1997... This study examines characteristics of volunteers participating in Phase I HIV vaccine trials. An understanding of these characteristics may assist in the recruitment of volunteers for future trials. Volunteer surveys from 232 participants...

Nursing considerations in the use of cidofovir for CMV retinitis in patients with AIDS: report of a roundtable meeting.
September 1, 1997... Cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, a late complication of infection with HIV, generally leads to blindness if untreated. Although the retinal damage from CMV cannot be reversed, disease progression can be arrested with any one of three...

Magic Johnson and Lazarus: the new syndromes. (Viewpoint)
September 1, 1997... The past year has been exciting in its advances in the treatments available for HIV/AIDS. This has given way to two new phenomena that I have begun to call the Magic Johnson syndrome and the Lazarus syndrome. The Lazarus syndrome can be...