What is it about?
We used information from a large study of adults with HIV in Ontario, Canada to see how having experienced adverse experiences as a child is related to living with HIV as an adult. We found that 71% of these adults had experienced childhood adversity, and it was more common among those who were younger, of Indigenous or African/Caribbean/Black ethnicity, and of lower socioeconomic status. Childhood adversity was linked to smoking, non-medicinal drug use, depression and lower quality of life.
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Why is it important?
Childhood adversity is common and contributes to many things that make living with HIV more complex and burdensome.
Perspectives
Healthcare providers need to ask about childhood adversity and try to understand its effects. Adversity is a "cause of causes" that needs to be part of healthcare discussions.
Robert Maunder
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Childhood Adversities and Physical and Mental Health Outcomes in Adults Living with HIV: Findings from the Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study, AIDS Research and Treatment, January 2018, Hindawi Publishing Corporation,
DOI: 10.1155/2018/2187232.
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