- Title
- Voices from the Patients: A Qualitative Study of the Integration of Tuberculosis, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Primary Healthcare Services in O.R. Tambo District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Dlatu, Ntandazo
- Creator
- Oladimeji, Elizabeth Kelechi
- Creator
- Apalata, Teke
- Description
- Tuberculosis (TB), a disease of poverty and inequality, is a leading cause of severe illness and death among people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In South Africa, both TB and HIV epidemics have been closely related and persistent, posing a significant burden for healthcare provision. Studies have observed that TB-HIV integration reduces mortality. The operational implementation of integrated services is still challenging. This study aimed to describe patients’ perceptions on barriers to scaling up of TB-HIV integration services at selected health facilities (study sites) in Oliver Reginald (O.R) Tambo Municipality, Eastern Cape province, South Africa. We purposely recruited twenty-nine (29) patients accessing TB and HIV services at the study sites. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis and presented as emerging themes. Barriers identified included a lack of health education about TB and HIV; an inadequate counselling for HIV and the antiretroviral drugs (ARVs); and poor quality of services provided by the healthcare facilities. These findings suggest that the O.R. Tambo district needs to strengthen its TB-HIV integration immediately.
- Date
- 2023/10
- Subject
- TB-HIV integration
- Subject
- Challenges and barriers
- Subject
- Patients
- Subject
- O.R. Tambo district
- Subject
- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- South Africa
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/13590
- Identifier
- vital:78959
- Identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/idr15020017
- Language
- English
- Relation
- infectious disease reports
- Relation
- Dlatu, N.; Oladimeji, K.E.; Apalata, T. Voices from the Patients: A Qualitative Study of the Integration of Tuberculosis, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Primary Healthcare Services in O.R. Tambo District, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Infect. Dis. Rep. 2023, 15, 158–170. https://doi.org/10.3390/ idr15020017
- Relation
- infectious disease reports 15 vol 2 158 170 2023 https://doi.org/10.3390/idr15020017
- Rights
- ©2023, authors
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