کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
954012 927620 2007 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Hope is the pillar of the universe: Health-care providers’ experiences of delivering anti-retroviral therapy in primary health-care clinics in the Free State province of South Africa
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
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Hope is the pillar of the universe: Health-care providers’ experiences of delivering anti-retroviral therapy in primary health-care clinics in the Free State province of South Africa
چکیده انگلیسی

South Africa is experiencing one of the largest HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world. A national, publicly funded anti-retroviral therapy (ART) programme has recently been launched. This paper describes the findings from a qualitative study of the views of health-care professionals, especially nurses, regarding the ART roll-out in the Free State province of South Africa, where nurses are responsible for most of the care delivered to AIDS patients. The study highlights the hope provided by the new programme and the motivation it has engendered among nurses. Apart from long waiting lists for ART, these professionals saw the main programme challenge as the integration of a holistic model of patient-centred care, inclusive of psycho-social support, into an under-resourced primary health-care system. By comparison, neither the increasing clinical responsibilities borne by nurses, nor the ability of patients to adhere to ART, were seen as key problems. This study suggests that the ART programme has mobilised health workers to assume responsibility for providing high-quality care in an under-resourced setting.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Social Science & Medicine - Volume 64, Issue 4, February 2007, Pages 954–964
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