Building adherence-competent communities: factors promoting children's adherence to anti-retroviral HIV/AIDS treatment in rural Zimbabwe

Campbell, Catherine, Skovdal, Morten, Mupambireyi, Zivai, Madanhire, Claudius, Nyamukapa, Constance and Gregson, Simon (2012) Building adherence-competent communities: factors promoting children's adherence to anti-retroviral HIV/AIDS treatment in rural Zimbabwe. Health and Place, 18 (2). pp. 123-131. ISSN 1353-8292

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Abstract

Given relatively high levels of adherence to HIV treatment in Africa, we explore factors facilitating children's adherence, despite poverty, social disruption and limited health infrastructure. Using interviews with 25 nurses and 40 guardians in Zimbabwe, we develop our conceptualisation of an 'adherence competent community', showing how members of five networks (children, guardians, community members, health workers and NGOs) have taken advantage of the gradual public normalisation of HIV/AIDS and improved drug and service availability to construct new norms of solidarity with HIV and AIDS sufferers, recognition of HIV-infected children's social worth, an ethic of care/assistance and a supporting atmosphere of enablement/empowerment.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescriptio...
Additional Information:	© 2012 Elsevier
Library of Congress subject classification:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Sets:	Departments > Social Psychology Departments > Psychological and Behavioural Science
Date Deposited:	20 Oct 2011 15:40
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/39008/

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