Family-centred HIV Interventions: Lessons from the Field of Parental Depression

Overview

Journal J Int AIDS Soc

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2010 Jun 25

PMID 20573291

Citations 5

Authors

Mark Tomlinson

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Abstract

Traditionally, HIV prevention focuses on individual behaviours that place one at risk for HIV infection. Less widely regarded as a fundamental public health issue is parental depression and the detrimental effects it exerts on infant and child development, as well as its key contribution to non-fatal burden. Much like many HIV prevention and treatment interventions, programmes for depression focus almost exclusively on individuals and individual behaviour. This paper will use the extensive evidence base from research into parental depression as a model to argue for a family based approach to HIV prevention and treatment. The aim of this will be to make a case for targeting a broader set of behaviours that occur within families when developing and implementing interventions.

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