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Browsing Medicine by Subject "AIDS (Disease) --Patients --Zambia."

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    Disclosure of HIV status by caregivers of HIV infected children at the University Teaching Hospital pediatric ART clinic.
    (2013-11-29) Inambao, Nalishebo.
    The study sought to determine caregivers' knowledge of HIV infection, knowledge of HIV status disclosure, their attitude towards HIV status disclosure and level of HIV status disclosure among caregivers of HIV infected children attending ART clinic at the University Teaching Hospital. A descriptive cross sectional study design was used and an interview schedule was used to collect data from 50 caregivers. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16. Findings revealed that all, 50(100%) respondents were knowledgeable about HIV infection. Majority of the respondents 38 (76%) were knowledgeable about HIV status disclosure. All the 50 (100%) respondents had positive attitude towards HIV status disclosure. Slightly over half of the respondents 27 (54%) had disclosed HIV status to their infected children, out of which 11 (22%) respondents only disclosed HIV status partially. However, the knowledge level and attitude of the respondents were not related to HIV status disclosure as disclosure was only 54%.
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    A study to determine the challenges faced by HIV positive persons in disclosing HIV status to their partners.
    (2014-08-27) Kapembwa, Joseph.
    The aim of the study was "To determine the challenges faced by HIV positive persons in disclosing their status to their partners. The study was conducted in Lusaka which is the capital city of Zambia. Fifty respondents of HIV positive persons (male and female) aged 15 to 49 years which is a reproductive age group were sampled. Literature was reviewed which included global, regional and national. Most of the literature revealed showed that HIV/AIDS infection is on the increase especially in reproductive age 15 to 49 years. The study sought to identify and assess the HIV positive persons perception on partner notification in order to explore the impact of partner notification in the presence of socio-cultural factors and then make recommendations to relevant authorities and policy makers on how to minimise the challenges of disclosure. A non-experimental descriptive research design was used. The study comprise of 50 respondents for the actual study and five respondents for the pilot study. The pilot study was conducted to test the suitability of the methodology. The data was analysed manually with the aid of the calculator and the findings were presented in form of graphs and tables. The study revealed that majority that is 56% of the respondents informed their partners of their HIV positivity while 14% did not. Thirty percent of the respondents were those who were not in any sexual relationship at that moment. The study findings showed that majority (40%) of the respondents were faced with challenges of fear to loose their status to their partners. (2%) of the respondents said that they lacked knowledge on how to break the news to their partners while 28% said that they faced none of the challenges since they underwent couple voluntary counseling and testing (VCT).