In 2006 there were 39.5 million people around the world living with HIV/AIDS, of which more than 63.5% were in sub-Saharan Africa. The number of people infected by the HIV virus in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) in 2005 reached 5.54 million. The prevalence of HIV/AIDS varies in each South African province according to the socio-economic environment. The North West Province (NWP) is one of the nine provinces of RSA. In 2003 the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in NWP was 29.9%. Little attention has been paid to the care and support services for people living with HIV/AIDS. Möller and Petr (2003) proved in their research, entitled ``Health related quality of life, HRQOL, of Tswana in North West Province, RSA{\crqq}, that the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS is worse than for the standard population. The aim of this work is, with the use of the HRQOL measuring concept in conjunction with its tool questionnaire SF-36, to determine whether there are any statistically significant differences in the fulfillment of the main social role between HIV positive Tswanas and the Oxford Healthy Life Survey, which is considered to be a standard population. The main social role for 6 out of 8 respondents was the parental one. The fulfillment of this role is negatively influenced by HIV/AIDS, particularly on an emotional level. The secondary aim of this work is to prove whether there are differences in the quality of life between the research group of this thesis, 2007, and the research group of Möller and Petr, 2003. The assessment of HRQOL showed that the quality of life of Tswanas with HIV/AIDS in 2007 is better than in 2003. This might be as a result of respondents{\crq} participation in a support group, as well as respondents working in their community as community health workers. Social contact has proved extremely useful in maintaining a good quality of life. This was also proved by a contact questionnaire, which was attached to the SF-36 questionnaire. The third aim of this thesis is to evaluate the care of people living with HIV/AIDS in RSA, in the period 2003 {--} 2007. The progress of care was determined by the secondary analysis of data, particularly for support groups, Home Community Based Care (HCBC), Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) and anti-retroviral therapy (ART) {--} these support services play a very important role in the care system of people living with HIV/AIDS.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:48938 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | DOBROVOLNÁ, Pavla |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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