What is it about?
People living with HIV/AIDS are more often discriminated against by health workers for fear of contracting the virus. This is made worse in health facilities that do not have adequate preventive materials to protect the workers. Such discriminations are usually accompanied by stigmatization, labeling, rejection or neglect, and abandonment by the workers
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Why is it important?
It gives an insight into what is happening in most health facilities how patients are treated inhumanely by those entrusted with the responsibility to care for them. It also bring to limelight the need for government to monitor the activities of health workers and more so motivate them enough for enhanced performance.
Perspectives
The myth surrounding HIV/AIDS especially in Africa generates fear amongst people. Due to ignorance and lack of proper information a lot of persons still hold to the notion that being closer, touching, eating or playing with an infected person is automatically contracted. Besides, this article will enable health workers to live up to their responsibilities by knowing more about the causes and the appropriate methods of caring for the patients
Dr Brown Egbe Isokon
University of Calabar
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This page is a summary of: Discriminatory practices of health care providers and care of PLWHA in health facilities in cross river state, Nigeria, International Journal of Health Sciences, September 2022, Universidad Tecnica de Manabi,
DOI: 10.53730/ijhs.v6ns6.12815.
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