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Economic Burden of HIV/AIDS Upon Households in Nepal: A Critical Review
Thousands of people are infected with HIV/AIDS in Nepal and most of them are adults of working age. Therefore, HIV/AIDS is a big burden in Nepal. This review was conducted to find the existing knowledge gap about the economic burden of HIV/AIDS at the household level in Nepal, the extent of economic...
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International Nepal Epidemiological Association
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4762508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26913211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v5i3.13608 |
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author | Poudel, Ak Narayan Newlands, David Simkhada, Padam |
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description | Thousands of people are infected with HIV/AIDS in Nepal and most of them are adults of working age. Therefore, HIV/AIDS is a big burden in Nepal. This review was conducted to find the existing knowledge gap about the economic burden of HIV/AIDS at the household level in Nepal, the extent of economic burden exerted by the disease, and to provide policy recommendations. It is concluded that there was a considerable knowledge gap about the issue, and the economic burden exerted by HIV/AIDS was big enough to push the affected households into poverty. It is suggested that more studies need to be conducted to fill the knowledge gap. Similarly, Government of Nepal and other organisations working in the field of HIV/AIDS need to provide economic supports (e.g.- support for travel costs) to the HIV positive people and need to increase the awareness level among general population for reducing stigma and discrimination, and reducing economic burden on them. |
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spelling | pubmed-47625082016-02-24 Economic Burden of HIV/AIDS Upon Households in Nepal: A Critical Review Poudel, Ak Narayan Newlands, David Simkhada, Padam Nepal J Epidemiol Review Article Thousands of people are infected with HIV/AIDS in Nepal and most of them are adults of working age. Therefore, HIV/AIDS is a big burden in Nepal. This review was conducted to find the existing knowledge gap about the economic burden of HIV/AIDS at the household level in Nepal, the extent of economic burden exerted by the disease, and to provide policy recommendations. It is concluded that there was a considerable knowledge gap about the issue, and the economic burden exerted by HIV/AIDS was big enough to push the affected households into poverty. It is suggested that more studies need to be conducted to fill the knowledge gap. Similarly, Government of Nepal and other organisations working in the field of HIV/AIDS need to provide economic supports (e.g.- support for travel costs) to the HIV positive people and need to increase the awareness level among general population for reducing stigma and discrimination, and reducing economic burden on them. International Nepal Epidemiological Association 2015-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4762508/ /pubmed/26913211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v5i3.13608 Text en © CEA& INEA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Poudel, Ak Narayan Newlands, David Simkhada, Padam Economic Burden of HIV/AIDS Upon Households in Nepal: A Critical Review |
title | Economic Burden of HIV/AIDS Upon Households in Nepal: A Critical Review |
title_full | Economic Burden of HIV/AIDS Upon Households in Nepal: A Critical Review |
title_fullStr | Economic Burden of HIV/AIDS Upon Households in Nepal: A Critical Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Economic Burden of HIV/AIDS Upon Households in Nepal: A Critical Review |
title_short | Economic Burden of HIV/AIDS Upon Households in Nepal: A Critical Review |
title_sort | economic burden of hiv/aids upon households in nepal: a critical review |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4762508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26913211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v5i3.13608 |
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