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https://pub.nkumbauniversity.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/306| Title: | The role of community-based non-communicable disease services in the quality of life of people with HIV |
| Other Titles: | A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Wakiso District, Uganda |
| Authors: | Ddamulira, Christopher |
| Keywords: | Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) Community-based non-communicable diseases services Quality of life |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher: | Nkumba university press Entebbe. |
| Citation: | Ddamulira Christopher (2021). The role of Community-Based Non-Communicable Diseases services in the quality of life of people with HIV in Wakiso District, Uganda: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. In Asiimwe, Solomon (Ed). Compendium of Graduate Students’ Research Abstracts. Entebbe: Nkumba University Press. |
| Series/Report no.: | ;no. 45-52 |
| Abstract: | The National Health Policy by the Uganda Ministry of Health (2010) recognizes that Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors are increasing in Uganda among patients with HIV on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART). The policy mandated the Ministry of Health to establish a programme for the prevention and control of Non-Communicable Diseases in all public health facilities, but NCDs services are lacking at community drug distribution points (CDDPs) where patients on ART receive services at. The program fitted strategies to address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to reduce co-morbidities related to NCDs (Maher et al., 2010). |
| Description: | The Community-Based Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) services strategy is in tandem with SDG 3, indicator 3.4, which aims to reduce by one-third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being by 2030 (Sachs, 2015). As a response to address SDG 3, the Ministry of Health (2016) contrived a strategic objective and designed a policy to implement appropriate HIV and NCDs health interventions at all public, not-for-profit, and for-profit private health facilities, targeting the entire population of Uganda to reduce NCDs and improve the Quality of Life (QoL) of all Ugandans. The gaps in the strategy for the WHO (2005), the SDGs (2015), and the MOH (2016) were that community-based NCDs services were not being offered to HIV patients receiving Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARVs) at Community Drug Distribution Points (CDDPs). According to the MOH (2016), 70% of the patients on ART in Wakiso district receive ARVs from the community. Wakiso District is among the high HIV burdened districts in Uganda (10.4%), with the highest number of HIV patients (47,779) on ART (MoH, 2017; Uganda Population HIV Impact Assessment Report, 2017). However, the patients have an overall poor quality of life of 56.4% resulting from inadequate NCDs services in communities (Mutabazi-Mwesigire et al., 2014). Therefore, the prevalence of poor QoL results in concurrent morbidity and mortality; and in a malfunction of the physical, environmental, and social health statuses. |
| URI: | https://pub.nkumbauniversity.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/306 |
| ISBN: | 978-9970-694-00-6 |
| Appears in Collections: | Book Chapters |
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