Access to ARVs for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS in Tanzania: Legal and Practical Challenges
| dc.creator | Lema, Leah E. | |
| dc.date | 2020-09-27T20:39:39Z | |
| dc.date | 2020-09-27T20:39:39Z | |
| dc.date | 2020 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-05-05T07:28:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-05-05T07:28:58Z | |
| dc.description | A Compulsory Research Report Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Award of Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) of Mzumbe University | |
| dc.description | The research intended to examine the access to ARVS for the persons living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania: Legal and practical challenges. The research proves that there were the challenges facing PLWHIV in the access to ARVS. Thus the the research dealt with the critical analysis of the implementation and enforcement of the law in access to ARVS for PLWHIV in Tanzania whereby the law is very clear but the problem was implementation of the law in real life because there was still discrimination, stigma for PLWHIV in Tanzania in the Access to ARVs not only that but also there is practical challenges like cost, few professional, unequal distribution of health facilities. The study combines the use of library research and Field research collection tools and methods. The field data include open-ended and close-ended Questionnaires and unstructured Interviews technique through an interview guide to gather information. Through library research including the review of various legal document includes, report dissertation, statutes and textbooks. The research presented, interpreted and analyzed data by using Qualitative making a conclusion and recommendation, the researcher conducted that we should implement the law for the protection of persons living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania in recommending that sensitize the community on the availability of treatment and the importance of adherence. This would help to educate and inform caregivers who work as treatment buddies. Community sensitization could also help in reducing discrimination, thereby encouraging more people to disclose. HIV status as stigma reduced. Also, Train more adherence counsellors in order to support ARV users, more staff should be trained specifically in counselling. This would help to ensure that nurse do not have to double up as counsellors and enable adherence counselling to be scaled up countrywide. This would help in delivering quality adherence counselling and may also contribute to efforts to reduce the long waiting time. | |
| dc.identifier | APA | |
| dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11192/4287 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11192/4287 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mzumbe University | |
| dc.subject | ARVs, HIV/AIDS | |
| dc.title | Access to ARVs for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS in Tanzania: Legal and Practical Challenges | |
| dc.type | Thesis |