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Touching Lives: Making a Difference Through Matchmaking in an HIV Clinic

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Idigbe, I.E., Nyatanga, Brian and Nicol, Jane (2012) Touching Lives: Making a Difference Through Matchmaking in an HIV Clinic. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 18 (2). pp. 56-60. ISSN 1357-6321

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Official URL: http://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/ijpn....

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The article reports on the ways counselors in an HIV clinic in Lagos, Nigeria are using matchmaking to help their HIV-positive patients find love and friendship. Data from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS estimate that there are around 3.3 million people in the country who have AIDS or are HIV-positive as of 2011. Counselors at the clinic based at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research reveal that the process of matchmaking depends on the specific needs of individual patients

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text via the Summon service. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service.
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	HIV infections, epidemiology, therapy
Subjects:	R Medicine > RT Nursing
Divisions:	College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Nursing and Midwifery
Related URLs:	http://www.markallengroup.com/ http://summon.worc.ac.uk/
Depositing User:	Jane Nicol
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2014 13:20
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2020 17:04
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/3271

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