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Home Care - 1.2.2 Lessons learned from other home care programmes
1.2.2 Lessons learned from other home care programmes
The limited number of evaluations of home care programmes to date have revealed a number of lessons learned:
Footnotes
(7) Gilks et al. " Care and Support for People with HIV/AIDS in Resource-Poor Settings", 1998
The limited number of evaluations of home care programmes to date have revealed a number of lessons learned:
- ensure that any new initiative is integrated into existing or planned government health systems
- strong linkages should be established at the onset of the programme with hospitals and other health services
- home care staff should have an appropriate mix of clinical and psychosocial skills in order to adequately address all the components of the approach
- labelling home care services as exclusive to PLHA can generate negative reactions from others and foster discrimination against PLHA
- support and care of HIV+ people is vital to maximise the impact of prevention activities. Any coherent response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic should seek to link care to prevention. (7)
Footnotes
(7) Gilks et al. " Care and Support for People with HIV/AIDS in Resource-Poor Settings", 1998