Publication
Title
Households in HIV care : designing an intervention to stimulate HIV competency in households in South Africa
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Abstract
Despite the Universal Test and Treat program and widespread antiretroviral treatment rollout, South Africa is still facing HIV prevention and treatment challenges, which are aggravated by human resource shortages in the healthcare sector. Individual- and community-level responses to these HIV-related challenges are increasingly being explored, for example, in community and home-based care. The role of the household as a crucial mediating social level has, however, largely been omitted. This paper outlines the design of an intervention to stimulate the involvement of the household in support for people living with HIV in South Africa. The 6SQuID model guided the intervention development process in four phases: (1) formative research, theory formulation, and a review of the existing literature, (2) integration of the results from the formative research into the “Positive Communication Process” (P2CP model) as a mechanism of change, (3) design of a community-health-worker-led intervention as the way to deliver the change mechanism, and (4) testing and revision of the developed intervention material—called Sinako—in a small-scale pilot study. The Sinako intervention anticipates that the future of chronic HIV care in resource-constrained settings will need to integrate the patient's household into the fight against HIV.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Frontiers in Public Health
Publication
2020
ISSN
2296-2565
DOI
10.3389/FPUBH.2020.00246
Volume/pages
8 (2020) , p. 1-11
Article Reference
246
ISI
000552967300001
Pubmed ID
32714889
Medium
E-only publicatie
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Project info
Households in HIV care: developing and testing an intervention to capitalize on the intermediate role of the household in community support for chronic HIV care.
Building HIV competent households: A sustainable answer to HIV prevention and treatment challenges in South Africa.
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Last edited 02.10.2024
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