The following specific recommendations are made
to policy, knowledge base and improvement of practice in HIV/AIDS especially
in home-based care:
- It is important to identify an approach the community members would
be able to support and identify with. This could be achieved by ensuring
that the community fully participate in matter relating to the project.
The community should be regarded the most important stakeholder. The
community should realise that the project would only be successful if
they execute their roles and responsibilities, which include voluntarism.
- In order to avoid stigma it is important not to identify the program
as an AIDS programme but the one aimed at taking care of the sick patients
in the community.
- The project need to incorporate life skills and economic programmes
geared at improving the economic well being of the family. Programmes
such as income generating projects are important to ensure that the
family continues to meet its economic needs independently. This will
assist project beneficiaries not solely rely on the project for survival.
- Openness about HIV/AIDS by informed parents to their children in a
family situation will build a strong foundation that will nurture good
and acceptable value systems in our society. This will also strengthen
the family and prepare the family to deal with the disease and all the
problems related to death and dying.
- Projects of this nature should not only concentrate on the people
with HIV/AIDS only but should also provide preventive services aimed
at raising awareness on HIV/AIDS.
- Involvement of the church structure in a broader sense to widen the
base thus reaching more people since, the church community based and
has proved to have survived many trails and is acceptable to the local
community and is willing to get involved since the approach fits very
well into the culture of the community.
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