Integrating mental health services into human immunodeficiency virus clinics: Lessons from task-sharing between clinical and lay healthcare providers in Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Globally, mental health problems are more common among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV) than among the general population. Mental health problems affect human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment adherence and retention. To address this challenge, partners used a task-sharing approach among lay healthcare works and clinicians to integrate mental health services into HIV services at pilot hospitals in the Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia. In this model, trained lay healthcare workers proactively screened patients using a mental health screening tool and subsequently linked potential clients with trained clinicians working at HIV clinics for further diagnosis and treatment.

Methods

We retrospectively gathered secondary data, including d

SUBMITTER: Ahmed I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9836402 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature