PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: Screening for Infectious Diseases
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Caring for People Living with HIV/AIDS Since 2001
Over the years, Baylor Black Sea Foundation has The team helps beneficiaries improve their health
adjusted the free-of-charge medical and psycho- education by providing health literacy messages, as
social services it provides in order to meet the needs well as therapy readiness and increased ART adherence
of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in the support. Psychosocial support is a complex service that
community.
includes: preparing for and assisting with the disclosure
PLWHA under long-term care at Baylor receive the of HIV status, assessing and assisting with maximizing
following services: adherence to medication and overall medical care, and
addressing mental health and emotional distress.
Medical services:
• Dentistry
• Dermatology
• Pneumology
• Primary cardiology
• Family planning
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Family medicine
• Psychiatric screening
Psycho-social services:
• Reducing the risk of HIV transmission
• Decreasing the number of patients lost to follow-up
• Decreasing the number of coinfections co-morbidities
• Preventing complications
• Improving
self-monitoring
and
treatment
management
• Mitigating treatment-induced stress
• Learning adaptive behaviors
• Adhering to treatment
• Facing and overcoming barriers and inequalities in
the public health system
• Providing information related to rights under
Romanian and EU law.
“I had the chance to reap the abroad called me after a while to give me updates on
rewards of a job well done, her health status and the medical care she receives now.
and still This is one of the ways we know our sessions with the
serves as a motivator for me. PLWHA currently under our care are useful.” - Alexandra
that
experience
One beneficiary currently living
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Androne, clinical psychologist
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