Keeping health staff healthy: evaluation of a workplace initiative to reduce morbidity and mortality from HIV/AIDS in Malawi
Open Access
- 5 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the International AIDS Society
- Vol. 14 (1), 1
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-2652-14-1
Abstract
In Malawi, the dramatic shortage of human resources for health is negatively impacted by HIV-related morbidity and mortality among health workers and their relatives. Many staff find it difficult to access HIV care through regular channels due to fear of stigma and discrimination. In 2006, two workplace initiatives were implemented in Thyolo District: a clinic at the district hospital dedicated to all district health staff and their first-degree relatives, providing medical services, including HIV care; and a support group for HIV-positive staff.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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