HIV made easily
understandable for the
patients
The Baylor Counselor’s Guide is a collection of 25
charts and, shortly after its completion, has become
one of the resources with the highest frequency of
use.
The guide effectively maps the face-to-face counseling
path: it communicates visually, its images illustrating
key messages.
“This new tool helps us transmit structured information
and leads to increased accountability in managing one’s
health issues. Understanding the disease and enhancing
the ability to follow the prescribed treatment plan are
essential! “
Alexandra Androne, clinical psychologist
The concept facilitates decomposing complex
information into simple and memorable frames, to
make it easily understandable and memorized. The
new resource has been developed starting from the
team’s actual experiences, together with the changes
in the evolution of the HIV epidemic and taking into
consideration the need of the people living with HIV
to understand their health.
The Baylor Counselor’s Guide was developed
in collaboration with the National AIDS Manual
(NAM) in the UK, the content of the charts being
adjusted to the socio-cultural realities in Romania.
NAM (www.aidsmap.com) has provided people living
with HIV concrete, clear and accurate information to
help them manage their condition since 1987. The
correct and reliable information allows people and
communities affected by HIV to protect themselves as
well as to protect others.
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