This research looks at the widespread effect of HIV patients (adults)' unwillingness to disclose their HIV Status. The study takes the Tema Municipality as a case study to investigate the causes of non-disclosure of HIV status. A sample of 300 HIV-infected adults who currently attending Tema General Hospital for medicals and counseling are selected. The focus was on their disclosure rate, gender disclosure rate, outcomes of disclosure and non-disclosure and causes of non-disclosure of their HIV status. The study reveals that 75% of the sampled respondents had revealed their HIV status and 25% failed to do so. A lot of factors were found out to be the reasons for non-disclosure.
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