How does the health department deal with doctors and nurses discriminating against patients who have a higher chance of contracting HIV? Mia Malan found out more during this interview for Bhekisisa’s monthly TV show, ‘Health Beat’
also recommended that the health department should work with people from populations with high HIV infection rates, for instance sex workers or drug users, to develop posters that can sensitise health workers to those populations. Has that happened?We’re working with partners who specifically serve key populations to develop education and communication material in the form of posters and pamphlets for both health-care workers and communities.Anyone who uses public health facilities.
There would be an investigation, to get to the root cause. When we started [the] sensitisation programme with Pepfar [the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief], we went to facilities and spoke to health workers about the training. [When we hear of discrimination, we explain that as a health worker] you don’t judge, because it’s not your job. You [should] give the services [that are needed] without any judgment.. But this seems to only be available at large institutions in cities.
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