Ghanaian Pharmacists’ Perception of People Living With HIV and AIDS (PLWHIV)
| Autor: | Geraldine Buanya-Mensah, Frances Owusu-Daaku |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Attitude of Health Personnel media_common.quotation_subject Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Developing country HIV Infections Pharmacists medicine.disease_cause Social issues Ghana Health personnel Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Nursing Surveys and Questionnaires Perception Health care Humans Medicine Pharmacology (medical) media_common Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Social discrimination business.industry medicine.disease Female business Prejudice |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 23:135-139 |
| ISSN: | 1531-1937 0897-1900 |
| Popis: | To determine Ghanaian pharmacists’ perception of persons living with HIV (PLWHIV), pharmacists and other health care personnel in Ghana completed self-administered questionnaires in 3 separate studies from November 2003 to January 2005. Two of the studies (studies 2 and 3) incorporated 4 simple questions that are generally administered to determine, hypothetically, the degree of discrimination against PLWHIV. Responses to these questions were also analyzed in the 2003 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS). A nondiscriminatory response to all the indicators reflected an accepting attitude, and a discriminatory response, in at least one indicator, reflected a negative attitude. In study 1, 35% of pharmacists indicated an accepting attitude toward PLWHIV. In study 2, only 17% of the pharmacists sampled indicated an accepting attitude toward PLWHIV. In study 3, none of the 10 pharmacists sampled indicated an accepting attitude toward PLWHIV. However, 19% of the totality of health workers did so. Compared to Ghanaians of similar socioeconomic backgrounds, pharmacists tended to report a more perceived discriminatory attitude toward PLWHIV. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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