O'Brien describes the coping strategies that long-term survivors
of HIV employ to promote positive quality of life. She also
explores the impact of the virus on family members, friends, and
caregivers; their strategies for dealing with HIV are identified as
well.
This book has two unique features. First, the creative coping
strategies developed to deal with HIV are explored primarily
through the words of those living and/or working with the virus.
O'Brien utilized more than 350 hours of tape-recorded interviews to
glean the insightful and poignant anecdotes which describe their
walk with HIV. Second, the HIV-positive individuals described are
long-term survivors of the virus. Although that population consists
primarily of gay men, the case is made that they are the first
group of people with HIV to experience long-term survival; thus,
their coping strategies and those of the people close to them
provide a model for others moving into the survivor category. An
important resource for nurses, social workers, chaplains, others in
fields working with HIV/AIDs patients, and their families and
friends.
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