Document 0620
 DOCN  M9650620
 TI    A therapeutic community for HIV-infected persons: an approach for
       prevention and control of AIDS.
 DT    9605
 AU    Warnnissorn T; Department of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of
       Public; Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand.
 SO    J Med Assoc Thai. 1995 Oct;78(10):559-64. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96108081
 AB    The Therapeutic Community (TC) for HIV-infected persons is neither a
       hospital nor a confinement for people with HIV. Actually it is a family
       of friends who are in the same boat and a place of education to teach
       them about AIDS and relevant subjects necessary for their life in the
       future, and to help establish new values and life styles for them using
       TC tools which are adapted from the DAYTOP TC in U.S.A. The purpose was
       not only to build the residents, but also to encourage them to do their
       part in contributing to build up a better and safer society that will
       help to save the lives of others from AIDS. Correct knowledge in AIDS,
       together with the quality of honesty, responsibility and other basic
       attitudes that the residents acquire through the program will enable
       them to become a creative force in the prevention and control of AIDS.
       The author would say that words alone will not describe the whole TC. It
       requires self experience through the program in order to learn TC and
       understand it.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL  Communicable
       Disease Control/METHODS  Human  HIV Infections/PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/*REHABILITATION  Patient Education/METHODS  Self-Help Groups
       Thailand  *Therapeutic Community  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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