Clinical Waste Management in the Context of the Kanye Community Home-Based Care Programme; Botswana
Afr. j. AIDS res. (Online)
; 7(2): 187-194, 2008.
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in English
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ABSTRACT
This study examines clinical waste disposal and handling in the context of a community home-based care (CHBC) programme in Kanye; southern Botswana . This qualitative study involved 10 focus group discussions with a total of 82 HIV/AIDS primary caregivers in Kanye; one-to-one interviews with the five nurses supervising the programme; and participant observation. Numerous aspects of clinical or healthcare waste management were found to be hazardous and challenging to the home-based caregivers in the Kanye CHBC programme; namely lack of any clear policies for clinical waste management; unhygienic waste handling and disposal by home-based caregivers; including burning and burying the healthcare wastes; and the absence of pre-treatment methods; inadequate transportation facilities to ferry the waste to clinics and then to appropriate disposal sites; stigma and discrimination associated with the physical removal of clinical waste from homes or clinics; poor storage of the healthcare waste at clinics; lack of incinerators for burning clinical waste; and a high risk of contagion to individuals and the environment at all stages of managing the clinical waste
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AIM (Africa)
Main subject:
Risk Factors
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Public Sector
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Waste Management
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Environmental Exposure
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Home Care Services
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Medical Waste
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Qualitative research
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Risk factors
Language:
English
Journal:
Afr. j. AIDS res. (Online)
Year:
2008
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Article
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