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    HIV/AIDS and home based care in Botswana: panacea or perfidy?

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    Date
    2004
    Author
    Jacques, Gloria
    Stegling, Christine
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis, taylorandfrancis.com/
    Link
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1300/J200v02n02_11
    Type
    Published Article
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    Abstract
    The extent of the AIDS pandemic in Africa (and specifically in Botswana), and the lack of institutional frameworks to address concomitant issues, have necessitated the adoption of home based care for sufferers as national policy. The practice is beset by problems, given the severe symptomatic nature of the disease and the general lack of human and material resources to address the needs of patients and care-givers. A study of one such programme in the Kweneng District of Botswana highlighted gender imbalances, poverty, lack of appropriate skills, over-involvement of the elderly, deficient specialised facilities, need for volunteer capacity building, inadequate income generating activities, insufficient counseling services, and culturally determined cognitive processes as areas requiring urgent attention. It is apparent that the programme needs strengthening through appropriate support mechanisms and that alternative strategies should be devised for those whose circumstances demand them.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10311/1898
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