The role of counselling in community support for HIV/AIDS in uganda

HIV/AIDS counselling in medical related programmes focuses upon pre- and post-test counselling. The MRC programme in rural Uganda, a high prevalence area, began with pre- and post-test counselling, but as it was a community based programme this was not found to be adequate. As the programme develope...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Counselling psychology quarterly 1996-06, Vol.9 (2), p.177-190
Hauptverfasser:	Balmer, D. H., Seeley, J., Bachengana, C.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Biological and medical sciences Community based programmes Community Mental Health Community Services Counseling Counselling Human immunodeficiency virus Medical sciences Mental health Patients Prevention. Health policy. Planification Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Rural Areas Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry Uganda
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Zusammenfassung:	HIV/AIDS counselling in medical related programmes focuses upon pre- and post-test counselling. The MRC programme in rural Uganda, a high prevalence area, began with pre- and post-test counselling, but as it was a community based programme this was not found to be adequate. As the programme developed, the counselling service became a way of strengthening the community to withstand the effects of HIV/AIDS. The paper describes the de-centralization of the counselling Programme from a medical centre to community centres. To monitor and evaluate the programme a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators were developed, these are introduced and discussed.
ISSN:	0951-5070 1469-3674
DOI:	10.1080/09515079608256362