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DOCN M94A2046
TI Skills training for people with HIV: does it help people to cope.
DT 9412
AU Baggaley R; Zulu W; Muluti J; Macmillan M; Kelly M; Godfrey-Faussett P;
Kara-Zambart Project, Lusaka, Zambia.
SO Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):393 (abstract no. PD0179). Unique
Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370529
AB BACKGROUND: A skills training scheme for people with HIV was set up in
1992. The scheme offered training in various artistic skills as well as
group and individual counselling and HIV education. OBJECTIVES: 1. To
establish why people joined the scheme. 2. To determine whether the
training was relevant to their needs. 3. To ascertain their future
plans. 4. To find out whether the project had helped them to cope with
their positive status. METHOD: All the trainees on the scheme in
November 1993 were interviewed by a researcher trained in qualitative
techniques. The interviews were conducted in vernacular languages and
lasted between 30-120 minutes. RESULTS: All 32 participants agreed to be
interviewed (19 female and 13 male). The men had joined because of
unemployment, some having lost their jobs because of ill health or
problems related to HIV. Many of the women joined because of death or
ill health of their spouses and consequently a need for an income. All
the participants enjoyed working on the training scheme. The majority of
the participants wished to use the skills they had learnt to start small
businesses but stated that it would be important to have loans and
business advice. Although the group is for people with HIV 40% of the
group had difficulties acknowledging their status at the start of the
course but by the end they were all able to talk about their HIV freely
with in the group. Many participants still found it extremely difficult
to talk about their HIV status outside the group and said how important
it was to meet in a place where you were accepted and where HIV was not
treated as a stigma. Although most of the men had been able to talk to
someone about being HIV positive only 2 had been able to share this with
their regular sexual partner. 11 of the women had told their partners (5
women were widowed and had no current sexual partner). 3 women and no
men felt able to go public and help others by becoming peer educators.
CONCLUSIONS: 1. Although the participants were enthusiastic about the
training they felt it would be wasted unless linked to a loan scheme
enabling them to start up businesses. 2. HIV remains a very stigmatised
condition in Zambia and although many of the participants had been able
to acknowledge their status following the course many had no one they
could turn to for support and expressed a need for continuing contact
with a counsellor from the centre.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PSYCHOLOGY/*REHABILITATION
*Adaptation, Psychological Adult *Art Female Human HIV
Seropositivity/PSYCHOLOGY/REHABILITATION Male *Rehabilitation,
Vocational Sexual Partners *Sick Role Social Support Truth
Disclosure *Vocational Education Zambia MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).