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| Title |
Love as harm reduction: fighting AIDS and stigma in Vietnam
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Harm Reduction Journal, December 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1477-7517-6-34 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Dan Small |
| Abstract |
In the summer of 2009, I visited a humble orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam. Here, like many parts in the world, the very existence of marginalized people with stigmatized illness is hidden away. Relegated to the shadows of society, these children lacked something more fundamental than housing, shelter, nutrition and medications. They lacked families to love and care for them unconditionally. One might think it self-evident that a visit to an orphanage for children with HIV would be profound, but the profundity wasn't where I expected to find it. It was in how the children had created their own family, loving each other like brothers and sisters, and the way the priest who operated the shelters was more than a Father, he was a dad to dozens of children. This is an account of love as harm reduction in the Mai Tam orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Canada | 2 | 29% |
| Spain | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 57% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 29% |
| Scientists | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 24 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 23 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 6 | 25% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 17% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 13% |
| Other | 2 | 8% |
| Lecturer | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 13% |
| Unknown | 5 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 7 | 29% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 25% |
| Psychology | 4 | 17% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 6 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 January 2014.
All research outputs
#6,963,672
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Harm Reduction Journal
#717
of 1,119 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,324
of 177,073 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Harm Reduction Journal
#3
of 7 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,119 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.8. This one is in the 35th percentile – i.e., 35% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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