Abstract

This study attempted to assess the relationship between short and medium term public sector ART and both physical and emotional health outcomes in the Free State province of South Africa. The first model examined the effects of less than six months of ART on both physical and emotional QoL and of physical QoL on emotional QoL, while controlling for the possibly perturbing influences of inequitable ART distribution. The second model assessed the effects of the next six months of ART by comparing the physical en emotional QoL of patients at baseline and follow-up. First, the findings demonstrate the positive physical and emotional health outcomes of the first six months of ART in the Free State, South Africa. The study suggests that the poorest of the poor are not the first beneficiaries of the public programme. Second, the results show no additional positive effect of the subsequent six months of ART on the emotional and physical QoL of patients.

How to Cite:

Wouters, E., (2008) “De impact van het publieke antiretrovirale programma op de fysieke en emotionele levenskwaliteit van HIV/AIDS-patiënten in Zuid-Afrika”, Tijdschrift voor Sociologie 29(2-3), 313–334. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/sociologos.86711