Rights-based services for adolescents living with HIV : adolescent self-efficacy and implications for health systems in Zambia

Mburu, Gitau and Hodgson, Ian and Teltschik, Anja and Ram, Mala and Haamujompa, Choolwe and Bajpai, Divya and Mutali, Beatrice (2013) Rights-based services for adolescents living with HIV : adolescent self-efficacy and implications for health systems in Zambia. Reproductive Health Matters, 21 (41). pp. 176-185. ISSN 0968-8080

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

A rights-based approach in HIV service delivery for adults is increasingly taking root in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of greater availability of antiretroviral therapy. Yet there has been comparatively little progress in strengthening a rights-based approach to adolescent HIV services, which we learned during a qualitative study in 2010 among 111 adolescents living with HIV, 21 parents and 38 health providers in three districts in Zambia. Adolescents in the study expressed a range of information and support needs and wanted locally relevant interventions to meet those needs. They wanted greater access to HIV, sexual and reproductive health information, information on how to protect themselves, privacy and confidentiality in service sites, skills training so as to be able to earn money, and better control over disclosure of their HIV status to others. Both health workers and parents acknowledged that information and services needed to be improved to meet those needs far better. This paper provides examples of successful programmes in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Tanzania, Botswana and South Africa and calls for adolescent services to be linked to both paediatric and adult services, peer networks to be established to increase adolescents' ability to collectively voice their concerns and support each other, interventions supporting adolescents' control over self-disclosure, and lastly that adolescent health should become a training specialty in sub-Saharan Africa.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Reproductive Health Matters
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2729
Subjects:
?? adolescents hiv rightszambia africa obstetrics and gynaecologyreproductive medicine ??
ID Code:
66314
Deposited By:
Deposited On:
17 Sep 2013 08:04
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
Last Modified:
28 Nov 2023 10:48