Embodied accounts of HIV and hope: using audio diaries with interviews.

Capturing the complexity of the experience of chronic illness over time presents significant methodological and ethical challenges. In this article, we present methodological and substantive insights from a longitudinal qualitative study with 20 people living with HIV in Serbia. We used both repeated in-depth interviews and audio diaries to explore the role of hope in coping with and managing HIV.

[Ophthalmological profile of patients living with HIV/AIDS].

Introduction: Serbia has 2.287 registered HIV positive persons. A certain number has ocular complications which are mainly the result of opportunistic infections accompanying this illness.

"You should be grateful to have medicines": continued dependence, altering stigma and the HIV treatment experience in Serbia.

The expectation that universal HIV treatment access in resource-stretched settings will reduce stigma is a powerful aspiration that has been incorporated into a global rhetoric of hope around the HIV pandemic. Between 2005 and 2007, we undertook qualitative longitudinal research with people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) in Serbia. We draw here upon the thematic analysis of prospective interview accounts of 20 individuals to analyse PLHIV's perceptions of the influence of HIV treatment upon their quality of life.

Medical promise and the recalibration of expectation: hope and HIV treatment engagement in a transitional setting.

Globalising discourses of HIV treatment scale-up emphasise a meta-narrative of hope and restitution for the HIV pandemic. Between 2005 and 2007, we undertook qualitative baseline and longitudinal research with people living with HIV/AIDS in the transitional setting of Serbia. We draw here upon the thematic analyses of baseline and prospective interview accounts of 20 individuals.

Ocular rosacea and treatment of symptomatic Helicobacter pylori infection: a case series.

Rosacea is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurrent episodes of facial flushing, erythema, papules, pustules, and telangiectasia. More than half of all rosacea patients may have ocular symptoms. Rosacea is associated with certain digestive diseases, such as gastritis, hypochlorhydria, or a number of jejunal mucosal abnormalities, and many patients have Helicobacter pylori infection.