Challenges impede aids patients in Jordan to integrate them into society

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This study seeks to identifying the challenges impede aids patients in Jordan to integrate them into society, and to know the status of aids patients in Jordan and their social and economic characteristics through monitoring the number of infection cases as well as the ways of contracting such disease.

the researcher applied the comprehensive social survey method which included (41) Jordanian patients infected in (2018).

the patients were classified according to their age, gender, marital status, education level, place of contracting the disease and nationality.

the results of this study include the following : 1.

the moment when the disease is discovered, the aids patient becomes shocked denying he / she is infected and feels regretful, but later the patient starts to accept the disease.

2.

the difficulty of winning the patients confidence , the difficulty of changing dangerous habits, the lack of privacy and confidentiality in both private and public hospitals, the patient feeling ashamed of himself ,hyper - sensitivity , the dangerous nature of the disease , and the financial problems which many hiv patients suffer from..

these challenges impede their integration into society.

3.

in 2018, 41 new cases from Jordanians people were discovered, bringing the number among Jordanian to (430) cases from 1986 to 2018, the total number of cases among Jordanian and other is 1,531 cases in Jordan since the establishment of the national aids control program (NACP) in 1986, of which 430 are Jordanians and 1101 are non-Jordanians, while the total number of aids deaths was 135.

4.

illegitimate sexual intercourse is considered the primary cause of aids infections among Jordanians with (53%), while (85.4%) of such infections were contracted inside Jordan.

the age groups (30-39) and (40-49) came first among aids patients with (55%).additionally, (19.8%) of aids patients were females and (28.1%) of the total number of aids patients were Jordanians.

5.

the highest proportion was among married, the highest percentage was among those who had university education, and the highest rate of detection was through voluntary testing.