What is it about?
There are a lot of children who contracted HIV who have to pass through their adolescence with the illness. As adolescence is a challenging period of human growth, living with HIV brings other additional challenges that adversely affect the psychosocial well-being of most of the adolescents. This study evaluated the use a novel narrative group therapy to see how it improved their resilience by comparing two groups of adolescents.
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Why is it important?
As the definition of Palliative Care requires that palliation should begin at diagnosis to end of life, the fact that this diagnosis also includes the Psycho-social illness that the patients faces, it is very important that we have effective methods or therapies to help patients deal with their Psycho-social illness.
Perspectives
I believe that this study comes at the right time especially as we go toward the Zero AIDS by 2030. it should open the eyes of many practitioners especially in Palliative Care to realize the importance of effective narrative group therapy in the treatment and care of HIV and AIDS. Unless the adolescents living with AIDS are psychosocial stable, Zero AIDS will be very difficult to achieve.
Project Coordinator Elvis (Joseph) Miti
University of Cape Town
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This page is a summary of: Improving psychological outcomes for orphans living with HIV in Tanzania through a novel intervention to improve resilience: findings from a pilot RCT, AIDS Care, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2018.1533630.
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