Participatory evaluation of counselling, medical and social services of The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) in Uganda.
The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) is an indigenous non-governmental organization (NGO) of HIV-infected and affected people in Uganda. TASO provides counselling, social support, medical and nursing care for opportunistic infections at 7 centres affiliated to district hospitals in Uganda. Between 1...
| Publicado en: | AIDS Care Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 13 - 27 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb97
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=107353981&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 107353981 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09540121 AAE jtl: AIDS Care issn: 09540121 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb97 vid: 9 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 107353981 107353981 1997044642 10.1080/09540129750125307 NLM9155910 107353981 ppf: 13 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: T tig: atl: Participatory evaluation of counselling, medical and social services of The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) in Uganda. aug: au: Kaleeba N Kalibala S Kaseje M Ssebbanja P Anderson S van Praag E Tembo G Katabira E affil: Community Mobility Adviser, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 20 avenue Appia, CH 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland sug: subj: HIV-Positive Persons Health Services, Indigenous Evaluation Uganda Financial Support Attitude to AIDS Counseling Social Work Service Interviews Semi-Structured Interview Focus Groups Data Analysis Software Quantitative Studies Qualitative Studies Audiorecording Family Services Funding Source Human ab: The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) is an indigenous non-governmental organization (NGO) of HIV-infected and affected people in Uganda. TASO provides counselling, social support, medical and nursing care for opportunistic infections at 7 centres affiliated to district hospitals in Uganda. Between 1993 and 1994, the services provided by TASO were evaluated through a participatory approach between staff and clients. TASO counselling services helped clients and their families to cope with HIV and AIDS, with 90.4% of clients revealing their serostatus, and 57.2% reporting consistent use of condoms in the past 3 months. TASO was also the main source of medical care for clients with opportunistic infections in the last 6 months (63.8%). As a result of counselling, over half of the clients (56.9%) made plans for the future and 51.3% wished to make wills. There was a high level of acceptance of people living with HIV/AIDS (PWAs) by families (79%) and the community (76%). Care was provided to PWAs at home mainly by women (86.2%). TASO has demonstrated that individuals and their families are able to live positively with HIV/AIDS. Through counselling, medical care and material support to clients and their families, TASO has effected change in people's attitudes, knowledge and lifestyles. In particular, TASO has demonstrated a strong capacity to overcome four problems that haunt AIDS care in most places: (1) revealing one's HIV-serostatus to relevant others; (2) accepting PWAs in family and community; (3) seeking early treatment; and (4) combining prevention and care. In general, TASO has shown that specialized services to meet AIDS care needs can be added to existing health services at district levels. As a result of the participatory evaluation, a well-accepted monitoring system was established. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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