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Title: | The dangers of involving children as family caregivers of palliative home-based-care to advanced HIV/AIDS patients |
Authors: | Kangethe, Simon |
Keywords: | Care giving Community home based care program HIV/AIDS Palliative minor caregivers Perfidy |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | Indian J Palliat Care |
Series/Report no.: | ;v.16(3); Sept-Dec 2010 |
Abstract: | The aim of this research paper is to explore the dangers of involving children as family caregivers of palliative care and home-based-care to advanced HIV/AIDS patients, while its objective is to discuss the dangers or perfidiousness that minors especially the girl children face as they handle care giving of advanced HIV/AIDS patients. The article has relied on eclectic data sources. The research has found minors disadvantaged by the following: being engulfed by fear and denied rights through care giving; being emotionally and physiologically overwhelmed; being oppressed and suppressed by caring duties; being at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS; and having their education compromised by care giving. The paper recommends: (1) strengthening and emphasizing on children’s rights; (2) maintaining gender balance in care giving; (3) implementation and domestication of the United Nations conventions on the rights of children; (4) community awareness on equal gender co participation in care giving; (5) and fostering realization that relying on child care giving is a negative score in fulfilling global Millennium Development Goals. |
URI: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012233/ http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/216 |
Appears in Collections: | School of Medicine |
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