Britta L Anderson, Sterling Williams, Jay Schulkin
Statistical literacy of obstetrics-gynecology residents
Journal of graduate medical education
human immunodeficiency virus acquired immunodeficiency syndrome hiv aids pandemic greatly affected africa particularly ghana pandemic remains public health concern particularly terms accessing essential medication improving quality life people living disease study aimed explore describe experiences persons diagnosed living hiv antiretroviral therapy qualitative exploratory descriptive contextual design used research population included persons diagnosed hiv receiving antiretroviral therapy three public hospitals ghana data saturation achieved conducting 15 semistructured interviews creswells six steps data analysis used analyse data resulted emergence one main theme six subthemes main theme identified researchers highlighted participants diverse experiences diagnosed living hiv found study participants expressed shock disbelief surprise fear death diagnosed hiv participants also experienced stigmatisation discrimination rejection need research extent discrimination stigmatisation effect optimal adherence antiretroviral therapy continuous public education hiv required limit extent discrimination stigmatisationcontribution study highlighted various emotions related stigma discrimination expressed persons living hiv plhiv findings guide policy eliminating discrimination stigmatisation people living hiv