Transitioning from adolescent to adult care in HIV /

Journal factors affect adolescents’ ability to transition from pediatric of the Association of Nurses in AIDS HIV care to adult care. [...] For example, adolescents living with HIV: 2. Fair CD, Sullivan K, Dizney R, Stackpole A. “It’s like losing a part of my • may want to keep their medical histories private and may family”: transition expectations of ado- not be willing to disclose their status to new health care lescents living with perinatally acquired providers (1) HIV and their guardians. [...] As a result, a growing number of adolescents living acquired HIV: Implications for transition with HIV are faced with making the transition from pediatric care to to adult care. [...] Many participants reported a lack of of adolescents with perinatally acquired knowledge about their health needs and a lack of skills necessary to HIV infection from pediatrics to internal live independently (1). [...] Similarly, in a qualitative Kambugu A. Transitioning behaviourally study of 18 adolescents living with HIV, 15 parents, and nine pediatric infected HIV positive young people into care providers in the U. S., pediatric care providers perceived that adult care: Experiences from the young adolescents lacked the basic life skills required to live independently person’s point of view.