hiv/aids: challenges in managing

Question 1

challenges in managing spread of malaria

Answer 1

1. difficulties in detection
2. lifestyle choices
3. social stigma = nonreporting
4. high cost of antiretroviral therapy
5. population movement across borders and along highways for work

Question 2

difficulties in detection

Answer 2

• hiv has no visible signs for most of the period of infection
• infected ppl continue with normal life and behaviour potentially infecting others
• with limited access to hc = difficulty to obtain testing

Question 3

lifestyle choices

Answer 3

• sexually active at young age
• having many sexual partners
• using injection drugs
• difficult to influence these lifestyle choices that hiv spreads by
• culture often influence lifestyle = difficult to change deeply rooted traditions and beliefs = continue risk taking behaviour
• polygamy

Question 4

social stigma = non-reporting

Answer 4

• stigma make people stay away from being tested
• increases spread
• may infect their partners cuz they remain silent
• social stigma = ppl will not stay on track on antiretroviral therapy
• health professionals discriminate against patients with hiv as they believe it is a waste of resources or they may get infected
• untreated = spread to others

Question 5

high cost of antiretroviral therapy

Answer 5

• treatment can control disease and improve quality of life and reduce risk of transmission
• reduced deaths
• costly, unaffordable
• becoming cheaper but still have transport costs and forgoing a day’s earning to visit a clinic with long working hours
• Botswana, 4h - 12h

Question 6

population movement across borders and along highways for work

Answer 6

• higher mobility of people
• truck driver travels from place to place and spend long time away from family = prone to risk taking behaviour such as seeking company of commercial sex workers