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East and Central African Journal of Surgery
Association of Surgeons of East Africa and College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa
ISSN: 1024-297X
EISSN: 1024-297X
Vol. 18, No. 1, 2013, pp. 27-30
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Bioline Code: js13004
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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East and Central African Journal of Surgery, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2013, pp. 27-30
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Psychosocial Issues Affecting Surgical Care of HIVAIDS Patients in University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria, West Africa.
Irabor, D.O.; Irabor, A.E.; Afuwape, O.O. & Adewole, I.F.
Abstract
The paper discloses that patients with HIVAIDS receive sub-optimal surgical care in the
University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria. Reasons adduced are, in the majority, of a
psychosocial hue and these are explained under subheadings of the rigid mindset of the
surgical care-givers themselves, the stigma attached to both infected patient and non-infected
relation also, the fraudulent ‘AIDS for gain’ population and lastly the socio-cultural practices
that do not augur well for good surgical health-care delivery. The paper concludes that
without a mental paradigm shift, adequate and speedy surgical care will continue to elude
HIVAIDS patients in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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