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Poor-quality health services and lack of programme support leads to low uptake of HIV testing in rural Mozambique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: CarolynM Audet --- Department of Preventive Medicine, United States Kate Groh --- Department of Medicine, United States TroyD Moon --- Department of Pediatrics, United States StenH Vermund --- , United States Mohsin Sidat --- , MozambiqueMozambique has one of the world's highest burdens of HIV infection. Despite the increase in HIV-testing services throughout the country, the uptake has been low. To identify barriers to HIV testing we conducted a study in six rural districts in... -
The views of Medical Students on professionalism in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: M Van Rooyen --- Department of Family Medicine,An article on medical professionalism was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in February 2002 outlining a charter, and the fifth-year medical students of the Medical School of the University of Pretoria were asked to comment on the charter... -
Confidentiality and Privacy: What is the difference?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Knapp D van Bogaert --- Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, GA Ogunbanjo --- Department of Family Medicine and PHC, Faculty of Health Sciences,In the practice of medicine, the idea of confidentiality is articulated in almost all its oaths, guidelines and codes. Dating at least as far back to the Hippocratics, swearing that “… What I may see or hear in the course... -
Student nurses' views regarding disclosure of patients' confidential information
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: MC Matlakala --- Department of Health Studies, JD Mokoena --- Department of Nursing Sciences,Background: Nurses have a moral duty to maintain the confidentiality of patients' information. Challenges to maintaining confidentiality often arise because of competing moral claims of the patient, his/her family members and doctors. -
Human immunodeficiency virus: confidentiality and disclosure of information to third parties
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: D Knapp van Bogaert --- Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, GA Ogunbanjo --- Department of Family Medicine and PHC, Faculty of Health Sciences, -
Ethics and medicine: Jehovah's Witnesses and the new blood transfusion rules
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: D Knapp van Bogaert --- Centre for Applied Ethics, GA Ogunbanjo --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care,It is against the doctrine of The Watchtower and Bible Tract Society for their followers, the Jehovah's Witnesses, to accept blood transfusions. For this reason, this topic remains a critical issue in medical practice and ethics. Few patients can survive... -
Ethical tensions faced by dietetic students during fieldwork
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: N. Nortjé --- Department of Dietetics, Cape TownResearch confirms that students carrying out their fieldwork are faced with various ethical conundrums and are unsure as to how to address these. This study identifies and discusses four major issues in this regard, namely confidentiality issues, the distribution of... -
Employees’ experiences of the stigma of HIV in a retail organisation: secrecy, privacy or trust?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Kgope P Moalusi --- Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThis study unveiled the participants’ experiences of HIV-related stigma in a retail organisation located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. A qualitative approach was adopted because of its appropriateness for unravelling subjective phenomena such as employees’ experiences of... -
A guiding framework for enhancing database security in state-owned universities in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Zorodzai Magura --- Midlands State University, Zimbabwe Tinashe Gwendolyn Zhou --- Midlands State University, Zimbabwe Samuel Musungwini --- Midlands State University, ZimbabweThis study sought to design a framework to enhance database security in state-owned universities. Database security has been a cause for concern for state-owned universities following many reported cases of state-owned universities that were repeatedly hacked locally and the fact... -
Confidentiality or continuity? Family caregivers' experiences with care for HIV/AIDS patients in home-based care in Lesotho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Mokhantšo Makoae --- Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Ken Jubber --- Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town,In the context of poor access to antiretroviral therapies in sub-Saharan Africa, the minimum treatment package intended to treat opportunistic infections common with HIV infection is inadequate but appealing, since it presumes universal coverage of medical care for patients living... -
The duty to disclose in Kenyan health facilities: a qualitative investigation of HIV disclosure in everyday practice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Eileen Moyer [d338e14] Emmy Kageha Igonya Rosalijn Both Peter Cherutich Anita HardonDisclosure of HIV status is routinely promoted as a public health measure to prevent transmission and enhance treatment adherence support. While studies show a range of positive and negative outcomes associated with disclosure, it has also been documented that disclosing... -
Perceptions about the acceptability and prevalence of HIV testing and factors influencing them in different communities in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Yoliswa Ntsepe --- , , South Africa Leickness C. Simbayi --- , , South Africa Olive Shisana --- , South Africa Thomas Rehle --- , , South Africa Musawenkosi Mabaso --- , , South Africa Nolusindiso Ncitakalo --- , , South Africa Alicia Davids --- , , South Africa Yogandra Dhee Naidoo --- , , South AfricaHIV counselling and testing (HCT) is considered important because it is an entry point to a comprehensive continuum of care for HIV/AIDS. The South African Department of Health launched an HCT campaign in April 2010, and this reached 13,269,746 people... -
“We will tell when we are ready”: perinatally HIV-infected adolescents and self-disclosure of their status in Eswatini
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Baliwe P. Dlamini --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Ntombifikile G. Mtshali --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaAccess to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has promoted a significant decrease in mortality of vertically HIV-infected children. As a result, there has been an increasing growth of this population that reaches adolescence. These adolescents face problems such as self-disclosure and the...
