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Title:The Plight of Family Caregivers in Home Based Care in Botswana
Author:Phaladze, Nthabiseng A.ISNI
Year:2001
Periodical:Botswana Notes and Records (ISSN 0525-5090)
Volume:33
Pages:73-81
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Botswana
Southern Africa
Subjects:health centres
AIDS
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Health and Nutrition
Medicine, Nutrition, Public Health
Caregivers
Health services
AIDS (Disease)
patients
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40980298
Abstract:Home-based care, as currently conceptualized and practised in Botswana, dictates that the responsibility for the care giving of HIV/AIDS patients and other chronic illnesses must be assumed by their families. The opportunity cost of those caring for HIV/AIDS patients, however, is enormous. The probability of family caregivers contracting the virus due to exposure is high. Consequently, the caregiving environment is fraught with fear of infection. In Botswana home-based care is seen as both a strategy and a solution for dealing with problems such as a lack of capacity in the health care delivery system and inadequate resources for HIV/AIDS care and management. Conversely, the burden of care and the human suffering experienced by HIV/AIDS patients and their families cannot be overemphasized. The purposes of this paper are to assess human suffering experienced by both HIV/AIDS patients and their caregivers; examine some of the challenges facing caregivers in HIV/AIDS care and management in a home care setting; and discuss the progress and implementation of home-based care in Botswana. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract]
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