| Summary: | Background: Acquired immuno deficiency syndrome (AIDS) not only a virus
problem, but it is also about stigma that can make PLHIV reluctant to disclosure
their status. Closing their HIV status is not a good solution. Revealing their
PLWHA status is not that simply. They have to think thoughtfully to disclose their
status, about who, when, and how they will reveal it. The heterogenous of
Yogyakarta society, create their society open minded, so, the researcher was
interested to find out the PLWHA disclosure in Yogyakarta.
The purpose of these study: To find out the PLWHA consideration about their
disclosure status
Method: Descriptive qualitative with case study design. Verification with
triangulation, member checking, and prolonged time.
Result: The process of PLWHA to know their status was by knowing the status of
HIV status of their children or spouses, feeling risky, and deteriorating health. The
considerations of the informants to disclosure their statuses were to reduce the
burden, to get support, to give care, and to think about economic factors. They
chose the way how to disclose their status by a direct and disclose way instantly
when the atmosphere was relaxing, calm, mind fresh, comfortable, testimonials,
quiet, gathering, eating, and hanging out. The place to disclose the status could be
on the streets, homes, friends' houses, hospitals, and restaurants. The targets to
disclose the status were to friends of the church, ones that could be trusted, the
notion of HIV, and people at risk. Barriers to disclosure were feeling not
important, had not accepted their status, fear, confusion, and economics.
Conclusion: Considerations of PLWHA to open their status associated with
reward were primarily to reduce the perceived burden, but also to gain support, as
a form of awareness, as well as to obtain economic support. Considerations of
PLWHA to open their status related to the cost were primarily about fear, in
addition to confusion, loss of economic support, having not been able to accept
the status, and feeling not essential to open the status. Dissemination about HIV /
AIDS, including the importance of status disclosure, through the empowerment of
religious leaders in each region is very important.
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