Barrier | Possible way(s) to address barrier |
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Delay before care is received | - Establish more ART centres - Train more caregivers - Institute an individualised booking system so ART clients can choose different days to receive care |
Long distance to treatment centres | - Establish more ART centres - Implement occasional outreach programmes to care for ART clients - Institute travel costs reimbursement schemes - Create family, community, and peer support groups |
Financial challenges | - Establish targeted social and economic safety net interventions for HIV+ persons e.g. conditional cash transfer programmes - Include HIV+ persons, especially ART clients in LEAP programme - Create family, community, and peer support groups - Institute free/subsidised nutrition supplementation interventions - Institute travel costs reimbursement schemes |
Shortage of drugs and other commodities | - Allocate more financial resources, especially financial resources to ART - Prevent wastage in the use of drugs and other commodities - Reduce inefficiencies in management and use of medicines |
Fear of side effects | - Educate ART client on how to properly administer medications - Educate ART clients on possible side effects of different treatment regimens and how to minimise potential side effects |
Stigmatisation | - Educate public on HIV/AIDS using both print and electronic media, including social media - Institute anti-stigma interventions using community based and led strategies |