tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " Love as harm reduction: fighting AIDS and stigma in Vietnam"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Love as harm reduction: fighting AIDS and stigma in Vietnam | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Open Access Case study Love as harm reduction fighting AIDS and stigma in Vietnam Dan Small1 2 Address Department of Anthropology University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada and 2Director PHS Community Services Society Vancouver Canada Email Dan Small - dansmall@ Published 3 December 2009 Received 23 September 2009 Accepted 3 December 2009 Harm Reduction Journal 2009 6 34 doi l 477-7517-6-34 This article is available from http content 6 1 34 2009 Small licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ In the summer of 2009 I visited a humble orphanage for children with HIV AIDS in Vietnam. Here like many parts in the world the very existence of marginalized people with stigmatized illness is hidden away. Relegated to the shadows of society these children lacked something more fundamental than housing shelter nutrition and medications. They lacked families to love and care for them unconditionally. One might think it self-evident that a visit to an orphanage for children with HIV would be profound but the profundity wasn t where I expected to find it. It was in how the children had created their own family loving each other like brothers and sisters and the way the priest who operated the shelters was more than a Father he was a dad to dozens of children. This is an account of love as harm reduction in the Mai Tam orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. For Bé Hin The Mai Tam orphanage and two other shelters in Ho Chi Minh City are operated under the direction of a Catholic priest Father Toai Dinh Toai in the Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City. The first .