Mujeres Unidas Contra El SIDA: A Case Study

Depression and self-esteem are a major factor in the lives of those living with HIV/AIDS, it effects their mental, physical health, and healing process (Mohite, Mohite, & George, 2015). Due to the fact that these patients already take a massive quanity of medication and do not need to add to this list, other forms of relieving the depression and raising self-esteem, such as education, should be used before giving more medication. Mujeres Unidas Contra el SIDA (MUCS) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide bilingual and bicultural prevention/education/support services to the Latino community of San Antonio by utilizing culturally and linguistically appropriate familia approach. MUCS is a small agency, located in near downtown San Antonio, Texas. The agency has several programs to support clients and their families, but the program to be evaluated in this paper will be the Road to Success education program. Road to Success is a 12 week education program put into place to help clients and their families deal with depression and low self-esteem, due to their disease, by educating them on the pathology and treatment of HIV/AIDS. …show more content…
Her daughters are worried about her and have been helping her with daily chores, but she is not getting better and her health is beginning to suffer because of the depression. The case worker at MUCS knows that something needs to done to help Dora, but a therapist is not an option right now due to the severity of her depression and the time it takes for Dora to warm up and open up to someone she does not know. Therefore, Dora’s caseworker decides to have her complete the Road to Success program. Completing the Road to Success education program will decrease Dora’s depression, from sever to minimal, and raise her self-esteem, from severely low to