Author: S. Nyota & J. Mapara
ISBN No: 978-1-919932-81-1
Cost: 34.20
This monograph aims to educate the reader about home-based care for an HIV patient. It explains what home-based care entails, the advantages of home-based care and the most important people in the care of a home-based patient, who include volunteers and other helpers. The booklet focuses on information that the volunteer needs to assist the patient and his/her family. This information includes the helpers’ health and attitude, how HIV/AIDS is spread and prevented, hygienic practises and other opportunistic diseases that may affect the patient. It also gives advice to relatives and friends so that they will be supportive if the patient. Thus, it is a tool that the patient’s support group can use until his/her last day.
ISBN No: 978-1-919932-81-1
Cost: 34.20
This monograph aims to educate the reader about home-based care for an HIV patient. It explains what home-based care entails, the advantages of home-based care and the most important people in the care of a home-based patient, who include volunteers and other helpers. The booklet focuses on information that the volunteer needs to assist the patient and his/her family. This information includes the helpers’ health and attitude, how HIV/AIDS is spread and prevented, hygienic practises and other opportunistic diseases that may affect the patient. It also gives advice to relatives and friends so that they will be supportive if the patient. Thus, it is a tool that the patient’s support group can use until his/her last day.
