Disclosure of HIV-positive status: Towards the development of guidelines, strategies and interventions
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Common facilitators/reasons for disclosing are: trust in the recipient of disclosure; positive experiences with previous disclosure; existence of strong social support; to gain social support; to obtain stress relief form withholding a secret; obligation and duty to inform; self-acceptance of HIVpositive identity; to share knowledge; and to control disclosure (i.e. to disclose before someone else exposes them).
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