Impact of Social Services on People Living with HIV is Scarce
It is essential to analyze the broad affect that a social service has on peoples lives when trying to understand its impact. Unfortunately there is not a lot of research that has been conducted in this area. Bataganya et al. (2015), researched the affects of social service interventions on five different outcomes for people living with HIV in order to gain a better understanding of how people’s lives can be changed through HIV services. The authors decided to conduct their research by analyzing studies published between 1995 and 2014 that related to people living with HIV in resource limited areas. Through their search of databases, they found eight articles that fit all of their …show more content…
Many studies reported positive findings relating to HIV services, such at Bataganya et al., (2015). In many cases it can be hard to know exactly what degree of positive impact is had on peoples lives due to qualitative data. Research has been conducted on effectiveness HIV treatments and found to be successful at delaying the onset of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (Pisani, 2010). When looking at social services it is more important to analyze the accessibility people living with HIV have to treatment and other aid that lowers the transmission of the disease. Programs such as Evidence Based Intervention (EBI) those adapted from it have benefited communities with a prevalence of HIV by reducing the risk of transmission through education and supportive …show more content…
S. EBI program and reports how the program was adapted in order to benefit more people living with HIV in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This study is critical because is shows that HIV aid has a positive impact on people’s lives and that once those positive effects are seen, they can be replicated in other areas through calculated modification. The first step that was taken when trying to alter the EBI program was to evaluate the program and decide what to adopt, adapt, or create. The adapted program for the Democratic Republic of the Congo was called Supporting Youth and Motivating Positive Action (SYMPA). The variables involved and framework of the new program can be seen in figure 2. Many adaptations to the program were made in order to compensate for the limited resources available in the area, for example the services provided has to be altered from an individual basis to a group basis (Parker et al., 2012). In the implementation of SYMPA obstacles and inefficiencies were encountered, such as the difference in settings, lack of existing data, and steps that had to be
It is essential to analyze the broad affect that a social service has on peoples lives when trying to understand its impact. Unfortunately there is not a lot of research that has been conducted in this area. Bataganya et al. (2015), researched the affects of social service interventions on five different outcomes for people living with HIV in order to gain a better understanding of how people’s lives can be changed through HIV services. The authors decided to conduct their research by analyzing studies published between 1995 and 2014 that related to people living with HIV in resource limited areas. Through their search of databases, they found eight articles that fit all of their …show more content…
Many studies reported positive findings relating to HIV services, such at Bataganya et al., (2015). In many cases it can be hard to know exactly what degree of positive impact is had on peoples lives due to qualitative data. Research has been conducted on effectiveness HIV treatments and found to be successful at delaying the onset of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (Pisani, 2010). When looking at social services it is more important to analyze the accessibility people living with HIV have to treatment and other aid that lowers the transmission of the disease. Programs such as Evidence Based Intervention (EBI) those adapted from it have benefited communities with a prevalence of HIV by reducing the risk of transmission through education and supportive …show more content…
S. EBI program and reports how the program was adapted in order to benefit more people living with HIV in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This study is critical because is shows that HIV aid has a positive impact on people’s lives and that once those positive effects are seen, they can be replicated in other areas through calculated modification. The first step that was taken when trying to alter the EBI program was to evaluate the program and decide what to adopt, adapt, or create. The adapted program for the Democratic Republic of the Congo was called Supporting Youth and Motivating Positive Action (SYMPA). The variables involved and framework of the new program can be seen in figure 2. Many adaptations to the program were made in order to compensate for the limited resources available in the area, for example the services provided has to be altered from an individual basis to a group basis (Parker et al., 2012). In the implementation of SYMPA obstacles and inefficiencies were encountered, such as the difference in settings, lack of existing data, and steps that had to be