{"id":36,"date":"2012-07-22T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/whywemust\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2013-11-28T07:53:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T07:53:28","slug":"simon-collins-uk-learning-to-save-your-own-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/index\/simon-collins-uk-learning-to-save-your-own-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Collins, UK &#8211; Learning to save your own life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatrightmain alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/tl\/report\/images\/sc.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Collins listens to an African and an American activist discuss a point\" width=\"250\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Simon Collins<\/h1>\n<h2>UK<\/h2>\n<h3>Learning to save your own life<\/h3>\n<p>Treatment literacy begins when a person asks the first question: What is the virus? What is the CD4 count? It continues as you ask for more information.<\/p>\n<p>If you keep asking questions, eventually you get an answer you understand. Soon you can answer for yourself, your friends and your communities.<\/p>\n<p>These are the politics of treatment literacy. You have a basic right to understand your body and health; choose and have access to free treatment; have information about treatment choices.<\/p>\n<p>HIV has brought a radical change in how treatment and information about treatment is delivered. You begin by trusting in your doctor \u2013 but doctors have limited time and resources. Doctors speak a different language.<\/p>\n<p>Who has the best interest in you having the best health? Who has the best potential to make treatment work for you?<\/p>\n<p>You are the one who has the greatest interest in your staying alive.<\/p>\n<p>What is the role of HIV-positive people in treatment literacy and peer advocacy? The experience of being a patient is often just as important as medical training. Patients are highly motivated. They want to live.<\/p>\n<p>You get better health outcomes from greater involvement of people in their health care. In a Uganda clinic I visited, people who started treatment, who became stronger and got their health back, worked as treatment counsellors for the next group of people starting treatment. They have 99% adherence in that clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Collins UK Learning to save your own life Treatment literacy begins when a person asks the first question: What is the virus? What is the CD4 count? It continues as you ask for more information. If you keep asking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174,"parent":5,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-why.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/175"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/why-we-must\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}