ABSTRACT
Stigma and discrimination create barriers for women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHA) in accessing quality health‑care services, affecting their well‑being and also increasing the number of cases. The current article studies issues of stigma and discrimination that WLHA experience in health‑care settings and highlights the importance of building awareness and sensitivity regarding HIV among all health‑care workers. This hospital‑based study was conducted in an anti‑retroviral therapy center in Kashmir. Twenty‑one WLHA participated in the study. The WLHA internalizes stigma and experiences shock, guilt, anger, and numbness while receiving a diagnosis. The stigma is socially constructed, having very little medical or logical basis. Verbal abuse, gossiping, expression of shock and disbelief of health‑care workers, discriminatory attitudes such as wearing multiple surgical gloves, denial of care and treatment, and disclosing their HIV‑positive status without their consent to their families and others have been learned. These experiences in health‑care institutions are disempowering for WLHA. Gender stereotyping and inequalities within health‑care settings and the discriminatory approach of some health practitioners toward women is the main barrier to accessing the services for HIV prevention, treatment and support services.
ABSTRACT
Short QT syndrome [SQTS] was described for the first time in 2000. This report describes a case of SQTS in a 29-year-old male patient with resuscitated cardiac arrest in whom the diagnosis was missed in the first instance due to a lack of suspicion. Characteristic electrocardiographic findings provided the diagnosis. The patient was referred for the definitive implantable cardioverter defibrillator [ICD]