Role of Counselling in HIV Positive Status Disclosure among Sexual Partners in Kibera Informal Settlement, Nairobi; Kenya

Fr. Abok Michael, Dr. Dennis Nyongesa Wamalwa

HIV/ AIDS, Status, Disclosure

This study clearly revealed that experience of HIV status disclosure among sexual partnersis generally painful and an immense challenge for the people living with HIV/ AIDS.  Considering the danger of infection and re-infections, there is an urgent need to address these challenges and provide the necessary emotional support. Silence is highly dangerous in this situation, and, as our practice has shown again and again, too often lack of HIV status disclosure ends in death and in spreading the virus. Stigma, discrimination, disempowerment, poverty and, gender inequality cripple and affect the infected people’s coping mechanisms. Literature, previous research and current findings are all in agreement on this topic.Counselling was found to play a great role in HIV positive status disclosure among sexual partners in Kibera informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.

https://doi.org/10.31871/WJRR.11.1.7