Ann Deschamps
About Ann Deschamps
KHLeuven, Department of Health and Technology
Herestraat 49
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Behavioral Health Specialist, Counselor
Organization
- Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - ANAC
- European HIV Nursing Network - EHNN
Work Location(s)
- Belgium
Ann's Communities
Language(s)
- Dutch
- English
Recent Contributions
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Ann Deschamps replied to "PEP in context of complex emergency: congo experience" in the Adherence & Retention community.
Dear Prosper Lutula, I fully support your idea of international action against rape and related practices. I see the consequences of this every day in my practice. We take care of several female refugies who were rape victims, completely traumatised and then had to hear from us that they are hiv + on top of that. Dealing with hiv isn't easy, dealing with it in such a traumatising context is even more difficult. Ann Deschamps ...
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Ann Deschamps replied to "Directly observed antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials" in the Adherence & Retention community.
Dear Jean, I'm not surprised about the results. To my opinion DOT is usefull in highly nonadherent patients who lack a structure in their lives which they can use to guide their medication intake. Using DOT in the whole HIV population is expensive and not feasible. Ann Deschamps
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Ann Deschamps replied to "Directly observed antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials" in the Adherence & Retention community.
Dear Rivet, dear Jean, wouldn't this be a topic for a workshop at the next IAPAC NIMH conference? Ann Deschamps
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Ann Deschamps replied to "Directly observed antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials" in the Adherence & Retention community.
Dear all in reply of Rivet's comments (what really works for whom and when) I suggest that we focus a workshop on connecting the needs of the practice with the knowledge of the research. Mostly, we do a review, find the ‘gap’ in research and design a study, without considering the lived experience in the clinical field. I'm now doing research on diabetes type 2 management (call it adherence, self management, it all comes to ...
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Ann Deschamps replied to "Directly observed antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials" in the Adherence & Retention community.
Dear Marijn, welcome to GDH! I'm pleased to hear that you will send in an abstract for the IAPAC/NIMH conference. I'm looking forward to meet you there. Ann Deschamps Researcher in nursing Anchor lector internationalisation University College of Leuven Department Health and Technology Ann
Recent Recommendations
- None at this time.