Antiretroviral Treatment Knowledge and Stigma-Implications for Programs and HIV Treatment Interventions in Rural Tanzanian Populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Agnarson, Abela Mpobela ^a   Levira, Francis ^b   Masanja, Honorati ^b   Ekström, Anna Mia ^a   Thorson, Anna ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AIDS KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES SURVEY; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OCCUPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; STIGMA; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; STEREOTYPING; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872436182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053993     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Chopra M, Kendall C, Hill Z, Schaay N, Nkonki LL, et al. (2006) "Nothing new": responses to the introduction of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa. Aids 20: 1975-1977.
2. Muhamadi L, Nsabagasani X, Tumwesigye MN, Wabwire-Mangen F, Ekstrom AM, et al. (2010) Inadequate pre-antiretroviral care, stock-out of antiretroviral drugs and stigma: policy challenges/bottlenecks to the new WHO recommendations for earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy (CD<350 cells/microL) in eastern Uganda. Health policy 97: 187-194.
3. Dlamini PS, Wantland D, Makoae LN, Chirwa M, Kohi TW, et al. (2009) HIV stigma and missed medications in HIV-positive people in five African countries. AIDS Patient Care STDS 23: 377-387.
4. Makoae LN, Portillo CJ, Uys LR, Dlamini PS, Greeff M, et al. (2009) The impact of taking or not taking ARVs on HIV stigma as reported by persons living with HIV infection in five African countries. AIDS Care: Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV 21: 1357-1362.
5. Agnarson AM, Masanja H, Ekstrom AM, Eriksen J, Tomson G, et al. (2010) Challenges to ART scale-up in a rural district in Tanzania: stigma and distrust among Tanzanian health care workers, people living with HIV and community members. Trop Med Int Health 15: 1000-1007.
6. Roura M, Urassa M, Busza J, Mbata D, Wringe A, et al. (2008) Scaling up stigma? The effects of antiretroviral roll-out on stigma and HIV testing. Early evidence from rural Tanzania. Sex Transm Infect pp. sti.2008.033183.
7. WHO/UNAIDS (2010) UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic 2010. 48 p. Available: http://www.unaids.org/documents/20101123_GlobalReport_em.pdf. Accessed 2011 Oct 24.
8. Link BG, Phelan JC, (2006) Stigma and its public health implications. Lancet 367: 528-529.
9. Genberg BL, Kawichai S, Chingono A, Sendah M, Chariyalertsak S, et al. (2008) Assessing HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination in developing countries. AIDS and Behavior 12: 772-780.
10. Ezekiel MJ, Talle A, Juma JM, Klepp KI, (2009) "When in the body, it makes you look fat and HIV negative": The constitution of antiretroviral therapy in local discourse among youth in Kahe, Tanzania. Soc Sci Med.
11. Macro (2002) Household budget survey 2000/01. Dar es Salaam: President's Office, Government of Tanzania. 1-115 p. Available: http://www.tanzania.go.tz/hbs/Key_Findings_HBS_Eng.pdf. Accessed 2011 Oct 22.
12. International Development Research C, Network I (2002) Population and health in developing countries. Volume 1. Population, health, and survival at INDEPRH sites. Ottawa, Ont: Renouf Pub. Co.
13. The National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania, Macro (2008) Tanzania HIV/AIDS and Malaria Indicator Survey 2007-08. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Available: http://www.ihi.or.tz/docs/TzHIV-MalariaIndicatorSurvey-07-08-PreliminaryReport.pdf. Accessed 2011 Oct 26.
14. Link BG, Struening EL, Neese-Todd S, Asmussen S, Phelan JC, (2001) Stigma as a barrier to recovery: The consequences of stigma for the self-esteem of people with mental illnesses. Psychiatric Services 52: 1621-1626.
15. Nyblade LC, (2006) Measuring HIV stigma: existing knowledge and gaps. Psychol Health Med 11: 335-345.
16. Kalichman SC, Simbayi L, Jooste S, Toefy Y, Cain D, et al. (2005) Development of a brief scale to measure AIDS-related stigma in South Africa. AIDS Behav 9: 135-143.
17. ICRW/USAID (2005) Working report measuring HIV Stigma: results of field test in Tanzania. Available: http://www.popcouncil.org/Horizons/ORToolkit/AIDSQuest/instruments/stigindicators.pdf.
18. Lanza ST, Collins LM, Lemmon DR, Schafer JL, (2007) PROC LCA: A SAS Procedure for Latent Class Analysis. Struct Equ Modeling 14: 671-694.
19. Nylund KL, Asparouhov T, Muthen BO, (2007) Deciding on the number of classes in latent class analysis and growth mixture modeling: A Monte Carlo simulation study. Structural Equation Modeling 14: 535-569.
20. Dennis ML, Wechsberg WM, McDermeit M, Campbell RS, Rasch RR, (2001) The correlates and predictive validity of HIV risk groups among drug users in a community-based sample: methodological findings from a multi-site cluster analysis. Evaluation and Program Planning 24: 187-206.
21. Kudel I, Farber S, Mrus J, Leonard A, Sherman S, et al. (2006) Patterns of responses on health-related quality of life questionnaires among patients with HIV/AIDS. Journal of General Internal Medicine 21: S48-S55.
22. Kattumuri R, (2003) One-and-a-half decades of HIV/AIDS in Tamil Nadu: how much do patients know now? Int J STD AIDS 14: 552-559.
23. Schwarz GE, (1978) Estimating the dimension of a model. Annals of Statistics 6: 461-464.
24. Somi G, Keogh SC, Todd J, Kilama B, Wringe A, et al. (2012) Low mortality risk but high loss to follow-up among patients in the Tanzanian national HIV care and treatment programme. Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH.
25. Makoae LN, Portillo CJ, Uys LR, Dlamini PS, Greeff M, et al. (2009) The impact of taking or not taking ARVs on HIV stigma as reported by persons living with HIV infection in five African countries. AIDS Care 21: 1357-1362.
26. de Walque D, Kazianga H, Over M (2010) Antiretroviral Therapy Awareness and Risky Sexual Behaviors. World Bank. Available: http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2010/11/30/000158349_20101130114522/Rendered/PDF/WPS5486.pdf. Accessed 2012 Apr 21.
27. Messer LC, Pence BW, Whetten K, Whetten R, Thielman N, et al. (2010) Prevalence and predictors of HIV-related stigma among institutional- and community-based caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children living in five less-wealthy countries. BMC Public Health 10: 504.
28. Amuri M, Mitchell S, Cockcroft A, Andersson N, (2011) Socio-economic status and HIV/AIDS stigma in Tanzania. AIDS Care 23: 378-382.
29. Hutchinson PL, Mahlalela X, Yukich J, (2007) Mass media, stigma, and disclosure of HIV test results: multilevel analysis in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. AIDS education and prevention: official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 19: 489-510.
30. Rumisa SF, Senkoro KP, Ngadaya E, Shayo EH, (2006) Community knowledge and information communication gaps on HIV/AIDS in Iringa Municipality, Tanzania. Tanzania Health Research Bulletin 8: 101-108.
31. URT (2003) Guidelines for forming AIDS comittes at local government level. United repulic of Tanzania, president office. Available: http://www.moh.go.tz/documents/guidelines_aids_committees.pdf.
32. Larsson EC, Thorson A, Nsabagasani X, Namusoko S, Popenoe R, et al. (2010) Mistrust in marriage-reasons why men do not accept couple HIV testing during antenatal care- a qualitative study in eastern Uganda. BMC Public Health 10: 769.
33. Cornell M, McIntyre J, Myer L, (2011) Men and antiretroviral therapy in Africa: our blind spot. Tropical Medicine & International Health 16: 828-829.
34. Kranzer K, Lewis JJ, Ford N, Zeinecker J, Orrell C, et al. (2010) Treatment interruption in a primary care antiretroviral therapy program in South Africa: cohort analysis of trends and risk factors. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes 55: e17-23.
35. Ochieng-Ooko V, Ochieng D, Sidle JE, Holdsworth M, Wools-Kaloustian K, et al. (2010) Influence of gender on loss to follow-up in a large HIV treatment programme in western Kenya. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 88: 681-688.
36. Rosenburg N, Taliaferro D, Ercole P, (2012) HIV-related stigma among nursing students in Cameroon. The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care: JANAC 23: 170-176.
37. Pharris A, Hoa NP, Tishelman C, Marrone G, Kim Chuc NT, et al. (2011) Community patterns of stigma towards persons living with HIV: a population-based latent class analysis from rural Vietnam. BMC public health 11: 705.