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Home Care - 3.5.1 Access/ Coverage
3.5.1 Access/coverage
Without comprehensive quantitative data on the numbers of PLHA in each of the districts in Phnom Penh in which the HCTs operate, it is difficult to measure the degree of coverage of the Home Care programme.
However, some rough estimates can be made from aggregated data. It is estimated that there are approximately 4000 people with symptomatic HIV infection (29) , of whom between 20%-30% (i.e. 800 - 1200) are living in Phnom Penh. The HCTs are currently visiting 800 patients, of whom about 80% (i.e. 640) are HIV+ and are generally symptomatic. These estimated figures indicate that the HCTs are reaching between 50%-80% of their target audience in the city.
Discussions with community leaders, with the HCTs and with the Volunteers during this evaluation support this estimate. Of the 15 community leaders interviewed in Phnom Penh, all felt that the HCTs were reaching the majority of PLHA in their communities
“I would say that about 80% of the people with AIDS in my community are visited by the home care teams. The ones who miss out are those who live in the villas (houses occupied by upper-income group)” [Village Governor, Cham Carmon]
Footnotes
(29) Consensus Workshop on HIV/AIDS in Cambodia, Phnom Penh, 1999
Without comprehensive quantitative data on the numbers of PLHA in each of the districts in Phnom Penh in which the HCTs operate, it is difficult to measure the degree of coverage of the Home Care programme.
However, some rough estimates can be made from aggregated data. It is estimated that there are approximately 4000 people with symptomatic HIV infection (29) , of whom between 20%-30% (i.e. 800 - 1200) are living in Phnom Penh. The HCTs are currently visiting 800 patients, of whom about 80% (i.e. 640) are HIV+ and are generally symptomatic. These estimated figures indicate that the HCTs are reaching between 50%-80% of their target audience in the city.
Discussions with community leaders, with the HCTs and with the Volunteers during this evaluation support this estimate. Of the 15 community leaders interviewed in Phnom Penh, all felt that the HCTs were reaching the majority of PLHA in their communities
“I would say that about 80% of the people with AIDS in my community are visited by the home care teams. The ones who miss out are those who live in the villas (houses occupied by upper-income group)” [Village Governor, Cham Carmon]
Footnotes
(29) Consensus Workshop on HIV/AIDS in Cambodia, Phnom Penh, 1999