No one knows what will happen after these five years': narratives of ART, access and agency in Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorOmenka, Charity
dc.contributor.authorZarowski, Christina
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-04T07:38:06Z
dc.date.available2017-07-04T07:38:06Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractRural Nigerians pursue a range of strategies to maximize current and future access to HIV treatment in the context of securing livelihoods and minimizing the social and economic risks of stigma. This study reports on qualitative interviews with service providers and anti-retroviral therapy (ART) patients accessing care in Benue State, Nigeria, or travelling several hours to Abuja for treatment (n = 34). Nigerians living with HIV are keenly aware of the fragility and complex global and local politics of funding. Their narratives of pervasive stigma, economic and health system barriers to access, growing fears that free ART will cease, and strategies to secure access to care reveal a sophisticated synthesis of social determinants of health and clinical care, and challenge practitioners, planners, and scholars to take a similarly robust and nuanced approach to vulnerability, access, and agency.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved list
dc.identifier.citationOmenka, C. & Zarowski, C. (2013). No one knows what will happen after these five years': narratives of ART, access and agency in Nigeria. Global Health Promotion, Vol 20 (1): 45–50en_US
dc.identifier.issn1757-9759
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3036
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757975912462422
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757975912462422
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectHIV/AIDSen_US
dc.subjectAccessen_US
dc.subjectAnti-retroviral therapyen_US
dc.subjectNigeriaen_US
dc.subjectFundingen_US
dc.subjectHealth systemsen_US
dc.subjectSocial determinants of healthen_US
dc.subjectVulnerabilityen_US
dc.subjectStigmaen_US
dc.subjectAgencyen_US
dc.titleNo one knows what will happen after these five years': narratives of ART, access and agency in Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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