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Reference | Title | HIV focus | Study objective | Location | Population sample size | Study design and methods of data collection |
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[7] | Health care workers’ perspectives about disclosure to HIV-infected children; cross-sectional survey of health facilities in Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces, South Africa | Disclosure | To assess how disclosure to HIV-infected children is being implemented in public health facilities | South Africa | 206, 140 (68.2%) were nurses, 44 (21.5%) were lay counsellors, and 4 (2%) were doctors | A cross-sectional survey using a semistructured questionnaire |
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[8] | Healthcare providers' perspectives on discussing HIV status with infected children | Disclosure | To investigate South African healthcare providers’ perspectives on discussing HIV status with infected children | South Africa | 40 providers, 11 doctors, 13 nurses, and 7 others (social workers and pharmacists) | Qualitative using structured interviews |
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[9] | “If I Take My Medicine, I Will Be Strong:” Evaluation of a Paediatric HIV Disclosure Intervention in Namibia
| Disclosure | To evaluate healthcare worker and caregiver perspectives on the effectiveness of the intervention in increasing their capacity to engage in the disclosure process and improving paediatric patient adherence behaviour | Namibia | 35 healthcare workers and 46 caregivers of HIV-positive children | Qualitative interviews using semistructured questionnaires |
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[10] | Using a Health Provider Insights to Inform Paediatric HIV Disclosure: A Qualitative Study and Practice Framework from Kenya
| Disclosure | To determine processes, concerns, successes, beliefs, and experiences of providers surrounding paediatric HIV disclosure | Kenya | 21 providers, 3–5 from each clinic; 2 clinicians, 5 clinical officers, 3 nurses, 3 nurse counsellors, 2 psychologists, 1 clinic assistant, and 1 peer educator | Qualitative interviews using semistructured questionnaires |
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[11] | HIV Status Disclosure to Perinatally-Infected Adolescents in Zimbabwe: A Qualitative Study of Adolescent and Healthcare Worker Perspectives
| Disclosure | To examine healthcare worker and adolescent perceptions of the disclosure process in health facilities | Zimbabwe | 31 (14 male, 17 female) prenatally infected adolescents aged 16–20, 15 (1 male, 14 female) healthcare workers | Qualitative interviews using semistructured questionnaires |
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[12] | Barriers to Provider Initiated Testing and Counselling for Children in a High HIV Prevalence Setting: A Mixed Methods Study | PICT | To investigate the provision and uptake of HIV provider-initiated counselling and testing (PICT) among children in primary healthcare settings and to explore healthcare worker perspectives on the provision of HIV testing to children | Zimbabwe | Children aged 6 to 15 years and 12 healthcare workers | Qualitative interviews using semistructured questionnaires |
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[13] | ‘Are we allowed to disclose?’: A Healthcare Team's Experiences of Talking with Children and Adolescents about their HIV status
| Disclosure | To explore the perspectives and experiences of a healthcare team at a paediatric clinic in South Africa about disclosure to children | South Africa | 23 healthcare providers | Qualitative study-focus group discussions |
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[14] | Factors influencing uptake of HIV care and treatment among children in South Africa-a qualitative study of caregivers and clinic staff | HIV care and treatment | To explore the perspectives of clinic staff and caregivers of children enrolled in HIV services on barriers and facilitators of children's uptake of HIV care | South Africa | 21 caregivers of HIV-infected children attending these clinics, 21 clinic staff members, and three lead members of staff from affiliated care centres | Qualitative study-interviews using semistructured questionnaires |
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[15] | “Experiences with the disclosure of HIV-positive status to the infected child”: Perspectives of healthcare providers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
| Disclosure | To explore experiences of healthcare providers in the disclosure of HIV-positive status to the infected child and factors influencing the process | Tanzania | 20 healthcare providers | Qualitative interviews using semistructured questionnaires |
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[16] | Routine checks for HIV in children attending primary health care facilities in South Africa: Attitudes of nurses and child caregivers
| HIV counselling and testing services | To describe the attitudes towards, and experiences of, implementation of routine checks for HIV in the context of IMCI implementation, from the perspective of both caregivers and nurses | South Africa | 5 with Integrated Management of Childhood Illness- (IMCI-) trained nurses (3 in KwaZulu-Natal and 2 in Limpopo) and 5 with mothers and caregivers (3 in KwaZulu-Natal and 2 in Limpopo), 10 nurses in each district for each focus group | Qualitative study-focus group discussions |
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[17] | Barriers and facilitators to antiretroviral medication adherence among HIV infected paediatric patients in Ethiopia: A qualitative study | Antiretroviral therapy adherence | To explore the barriers and facilitators to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) adherence among HIV-infected children | Ethiopia | 12 caregivers of nonadherent children, 14 key informants, eight counsellors, and four physicians, including two paediatricians | Qualitative interviews using semistructured questionnaires |
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