1. Getting to zero HIV/AIDS in sub‐Saharan Africa: Understanding perceptions of locals using the social determinants of health framework
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Lyndsey D McMahan, Margaret Lombe, Laura Wideman, Ngozi Victoria Enelamah, Yoosun Chu, Lubenji LaForest, Odericky Mweemba, Jennifer Verkamp-Ruthven, Deborah Jones Weiss, Javier Reyes Martinez, Caroline B. R. Evans, and Stewart Simms
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Rural Population ,Economic growth ,Sociology and Political Science ,Social Determinants of Health ,media_common.quotation_subject ,HIV Infections ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ,Perception ,Health care ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Sociology ,Social determinants of health ,Sociocultural evolution ,Africa South of the Sahara ,media_common ,Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ,Food security ,business.industry ,030503 health policy & services ,Health Policy ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Focus Groups ,medicine.disease ,Focus group ,Scholarship ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
This study explored a community perception of the facilitators and inhibitors of Getting to Zero (GTZ) in rural Zambia, sub-Saharan Africa. Data were collected in 2017. We use the Social Determinants of Health framework to guide organisation of key themes emerging from semistructured, focus group interviews with community members (N = 52). Data were analysed through an iterative descriptive/thematic approach which allowed for the highlighting of key themes. Emerging themes point to the significance of (a) individual, (b) sociocultural, (c) environmental and (d) economic factors, for example, treatment adherence, gender norms, food security and access to health care as important in GTZ. Implications for policy, practise and scholarship are suggested.
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- 2021
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