Bøger af Maria Angélica de La Cruz Ruiz

Self-care is the maturity and responsibility that a person living with HIV needs to incorporate in order to reduce and control the negative effects of the disease; the patient is aware of his or her vulnerability and fragility in adhering to treatment. Currently, the person living with HIV who responsibly adheres to comprehensive therapy (self-care practices) and HAART treatment provides the possibility of living a quality life. However, there are situations in which the person does not achieve the maturity to comply with the comprehensive therapy and therefore there is a greater possibility of non-adherence and a high risk of opportunistic diseases that can lead to a reverse evolution, i.e. lower hope, lower quality of life and higher costs, HIV is a public health problem that affects millions of people, which is why it is necessary to apply prevention measures, self-care practices and adherence. This requires sustained family support and the support of a health team that offers a unique and singular humanised care in the health-disease process.

Taking into account that the pandemic was a totally new situation for the entire scientific and health community, where most of the knowledge was scarce or null when facing such a tiny enemy, and having the ability to disperse easily, using the human being as a means of transport , This created a situation where the only defense was the use of PPE and biosecurity norms, forcing to change the way of seeing health care, creating new differentiated operating rooms, with infrastructure and guidelines for its implementation, with the sole purpose of limiting the spread of COVID by dispersion.