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A Research Study On Health Workers

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his chapter provides the discussion of findings, followed by policy recommendations and conclusion of the study.
Discussion of the findings From the interview study of Hauna community, long waiting hours, high cost of transport and stigma were regarded as the major barriers in accessing the antiretroviral treatment.
Attitude of health workers
Most of the participants praise the health workers and they appreciated their attitude. As it supported by respondents that the health workers, have a positive attitude towards the HIV positive people. Nurses are tolerant, understanding. This contradicts with the literature which states that treatment level, stigmatization is felt within the health sectors, where health care workers are insensitive and judgmental in relational to patients who are HIV positive (Developmental update 2004). The participants did not deny the fact that personalities are different, not all health care workers are friendly. Some are rude when they treat the patient’s. General of the participant’s view, the junior staff members have been reported to be insensitive and this makes the availability to be difficult. The results reflect that the participants were satisfied with attitude of health workers. This could indicate that the changing attitudes of health workers as compared to earlier findings which notes that the health workers were reluctant and hesitate to have direct contact with AIDS patient for risk of infection on the part of health workers.

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