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Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Beeman, Aly (Creator); Snyman, Leigh (Creator); Keene, Claire (Creator); Flowers, Tracy (Creator)
Subject:: HIV; intervention; South Africa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/acxn-8345

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Abstract:: Maintaining HIV-positive people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been a growing challenge with an increasing number of people disengaging from care. It has been shown that 60% of patients will disengage at least once over a 10 year period. Negative healthcare worker (HCW) attitudes are one of the many health system barriers to continued patient engagement and are frequently ascribed as a “final driver” in causing a patient to disengage.Patients have described HCWs as authoritarian and paternalistic, often noting the patients who are labelled as “trouble” receive the “worst care” which often includes punishments. We want to emphasize how it is normal to struggle with treatment at some point while taking ARVs. Question is: How can we support patients and HCW to increase and accelerate re-engagement?

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Beeman, Aly, Snyman, Leigh, Keene, Claire, et al., "HIV Healthcare Worker Engagement Package: The Creation of an Intervention to be Used In Khayelitsha, South Africa" (2019). MPH Applied Public Health Experience. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/acxn-8345

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MPH Applied Public Health Experience

This collection highlights Master of Public Health students' Applied Public Health Practice Experience. Students in the applied public health practice field placement work with established public health professionals along side professionals from other fields to address contemporary real world public …
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HIV Healthcare Worker Engagement Package: The Creation of an Intervention to be Used In Khayelitsha, South Africa