People Living With HIV said they experience discrimination from doctors and health workers at health facilities in Nigeria.The South-West Zonal Coordinator for the Network of People Living With HIV in Nigeria , Abiola Ajani, said Nigerian doctors and health workers have devised ways to discriminate against PLWHIV.“Stigmatisation is more from the health workers who have been saddled with the responsibility to manage these people.
“The patient felt bad because the same doctor was attending to other patients without hand sanitiser. She called for training and retraining of professional health workers on approaches towards clients and use of some word codes that can be demeaning to the patients. The ACT frowns at the ill-treatment of PLHIV in health facilities, religious places, schools, job denial, denial of access to communal places amongst others.
Ms Ajani said such an approach can affect the adherence to treatment and drugs by PLWHIV thereby hindering the effort to eliminating the disease prevalence.The Nasarawa state coordinator for Network of People Living With HIV in Nigeria , Philip Lokoko, said since the passage of the Anti-Discrimination law, stigma had become a thing of the past in the state.
“People have accepted us the way we are, my wife and I are living a normal life despite our status,” he said.“Health workers in the hospitals I have visited so far are good. They have never discriminated against me or my wife or spoke to us rudely.
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