[Nombuyiselo]

Lesson 8 I had to reflect at the social harms we had to deal with at sour  site and what comes to my mind is one patient who was an MDR TB trial participant  who was very ill. The doctors from the site had to book him off work because of his health condition. He was unhappy because  of the type of work he was doing was  no work no pay and he was a bread winner at home, he just wanted to back to work.   The clinical site socialworker had to intervine  and discuss with his HR to discuss if  there was any form of income he could recieve from work because he was the breadwinner at home. Patient was advised to go to the department labour  and he benefited  from the uneployment insurance fund. He was not even aware of this fund.

[Nombuyiselo]

We are experiencing the same problem im my community, there have been reports  of patients being mugged of their ARVs and some sell their antiretrovirals, from what we heard from the community is that they combine heroin and ARVs into a coctail and they get high,this coctail is called Nyaope or Whoonga. The biggest concerned here is the HIV virus drugs and resistence .

 

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Stakeholders should  be involved  in media training with staff,they can also give recommendations on how to share  the trial results with the community .

 

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[Nombuyiselo]

Hi

I have completed my knowldge check on GPP, I could not click the exit button it does not allow me.

 

[Nombuyiselo]

Hi everyone!

Thank you to AVAC for giving me this opportunity to gain practical knowledge and experience I need to become  successful with community engagement in my site, and I am looking forward  to become part of this exciting family .

 

Nombuyiselo

 

 

 

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