Assessment Of Quality Of Life Of People Living With Hiv And Participatory Action Research To Reduce Stigma And Discrimination Against Them In Abia State, Nigeria
The advent of ARV has considerably improved the quality of life PLHIV in Nigeria. They have improved work productivity and they spend fewer days seeking treatment due to illness. Research has shown that improvement on quality of life is largely on the domains I, II, III and VI of WHOQOL-HIV INSTRUMENT; domains IV and V which address personal and social relationships and the environment are not as good as the other domains. This research sets out to determine the scores of PLHIV on the six domains and to validate the findings on domains IV and V with the PLHIV using FGD as a participatory action research tool. One hundred and five PLHIV attending ART clinics were recruited into the research b Download