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Non-
governmental organisation the Democratic Nursing Organisation
of South Africa (Denosa), last week released a multilingual manual
on symptom management for people living with HIV/Aids.
The manual, which is the results of a four country collaborative
study, is titled ‘Symptom management strategies, a manual for
people living with HIV/AIDS’.
It documents inter alia; the frequencies of self reported physical
and psychological symptoms ranging from fear, anxiety, depression,
diarrhoea and pain as well as how to deal with them.
It further provides self and family care strategies for the 20 most
commonly occurring HIV/Aids related signs and symptoms.
Researchers involved included Dr Naomi Seboni of the University of
Botswana, Dr Sarie Human of the University of South Africa, Dr Lucy
Makoae of the National University of Lesotho and Dr Nonhlahla
Sukati of the University of Swaziland.
“It is important that people know how to deal with symptoms
as they impact on the quality of life for people living with
HIV/Aids,” said Nelouise Geyer, Denosa ’s deputy
director of professional matters.
“The burden people families experience in their struggle to
manage HIV symptoms could be reduced if health care workers and
society in general have symptom management strategies to control
physical and psychological harm,” she added.
The four countries involved in the research were South Africa,
Swaziland, Botswana and Lesotho and were funded by Bristol- Meyers
Squibb Foundation.
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