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Title: | SANKOFA: a multisite collaboration on paediatric HIV disclosure in Ghana |
Authors: | Reynolds, Nancy R. Ofori-Atta, Angela Lartey, Margaret Renner, Lorna Antwi, Sampson Enimil, Anthony Catlin, Ann Christine Fernando, Sumudinie Kyriakides, Tassos C. Paintsil, Elijah |
Keywords: | clinical trial disclosure Ghana HIV intervention paediatric |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | HHS Public Access |
Abstract: | With the scale-up of effective antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings, many HIV-infected children are now able to survive into adulthood. To achieve this potential, children must navigate normative developmental processes and challenges while living with an unusually complex, stigmatizing, potentially fatal chronic illness and meeting the demands of treatment.
Yet many of these children, especially preadolescents, do not know they are HIV-infected. Despite compelling evidence supporting the merits of informing children of their HIV status, there has been little emphasis on equipping the child’s caregiver with information and skills to promote disclosure, particularly, when the caregiver faces a variety of sociocultural barriers and is reluctant to do so. In this study, we present the background, process and methods for a first of its kind collaboration that is examining the efficacy of an intervention developed to facilitate the engagement of caregivers in the process of disclosure in a manner suitable to the sociocultural context and developmental age and needs of the child in Ghana. |
Description: | This article is published in HHS Public Access and is also available at doi:10.1097/QAD.0000000000000725. |
URI: | 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000725. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13531 |
Appears in Collections: | College of Agric and Natural Resources
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