Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018)

The Impact of Low Health Literacy to Social Relationship of the People Living With HIV/AIDS

Authors
Rinikso Kartono, Mr Latipun, Abdulkadir Raharjanto
Corresponding Author
Rinikso Kartono
Available Online July 2018.
DOI
10.2991/amca-18.2018.189How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Literacy, PLWHA, HIV, social relation
Abstract

The development of HIV/AIDS is not only caused by virus, but also by the low health literacy. The low health literacy can also lead to various social problems including impeding the people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) social relationship. This study aims to describe 1) The cause of low health literacy in PLWHA and 2) The impact of low health literacy on PLWHA social relations. This study used qualitative approach, and used interview and observation by Focus Group Discussion (FGD) as data collection techniques. Meanwhile, the subjects of this study are PLWHA and Peer Support Groups.This study found that (1) the low health literacy is caused by low education, myths, HIV/AIDS knowledge dissemination and uneven communication system, and the contents of the message in an inappropriate campaign of HIV/AIDS, and (2) the impact of low health literacy is the disruption of PLWHA social relations because they will isolate themselves to be paranoid, self-stigmatized, non-self-disclosure, more aggressive-destructive, vengeful, and unconsciously infecting HIV to others.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2018
ISBN
10.2991/amca-18.2018.189
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/amca-18.2018.189How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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