title: Severe mental illness and HIV-AIDS.
abstract: This chapter reviews the high rates of HIV infection and the risky sex and drug use practices of psychiatric patients, examines the role in HIV risk of psychiatric symptoms and of the contexts in which patients live, provides guidelines for taking sexually transmitted disease and risk histories from patients, presents recommendations for making HIV-testing decisions with patients, and describes the range of HIV-related services available to psychiatric outpatients.
authors.affiliation: Columbia University HIV Mental Health Training Project, New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McKinnon
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rosner
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012309:Risk-Taking