Implementing a male-specific ART counselling curriculum: a quality assessment with healthcare workers in Malawi.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is little HIV counselling that directly meets the needs of men in Eastern and Southern Africa, limiting men's knowledge about the benefits of HIV treatment and how to overcome barriers to engagement, contributing to poorer HIV-related outcomes than women. Male-specific approaches are needed to improve men's outcomes but may be difficult for healthcare workers (HCWs) to implement with fidelity and quality in low-resource settings. We developed a male-specific counselling curriculum which was implemented by male HCWs and then conducted a mixed-methods quality assessment.

Methods

We audio-recorded counselling sessions to assess the quality of implementation (n = 50) by male HCWs from two cadres (nurse, n = 10 and lay cadre, n = 10) and conducted focus group d

SUBMITTER: Robson I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11263468 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature