Social Work & Prevention : Partnership for Health
Partnership for Health is a new prevention initiative that emphasizes the patient and provider partnership to keep both the patient healthy and to prevent the transmission of HIV to the patient's sex partner(s).
The social worker, case manager or member of the medical team initiates a 3 to 5 minute conversation with the patient to
These issues are discussed and reinforced at every visit.
- Introduce the idea of their partnership
- Ask about the patient's sexual behavior
- Convey appropriate prevention messages based on the patient's behaviors
- Focus on 3 core messages:
- Patient self protection through safer sex
- Partner protection through safer sex
- Disclosure of status to sex partners
These issues are discussed and reinforced at every visit.
