Critical Coping Challenges Facing Caregivers of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS and other Terminally III Persons: The Case of Kanye Care Program, Botswana.
OBJECTIVE
This article aims to identify and explore the needs, gaps, and coping challenges faced by the Kanye CHBC caregivers.


OBJECTIVE
To provide the Kanye primary caregivers with an opportunity to explore, discuss, and brainstorm the care giving challenges that impede their coping process.


METHODS
The study was exploratory in nature and attracted qualitative design. Eighty-two primary caregivers aged between 18 and 85 years were involved in 10 focus group discussions steered by an interview guide; while five CHBC nurses were subjected to one-to-one in-depth interviews still guided by an interview guide that differed only slightly with the one for the caregivers.


RESULTS
The following aspects were found detrimental and affecting the productivity and coping capacities of the primary caregivers inadequate counseling and debriefings; lack of motivation and incentives; inadequate supervision visits; and lack of support groups to facilitate information sharing and encouraging one another.


CONCLUSIONS
This article recommends counseling and debriefings; formation of caregivers support groups; motivation strategies to be put in place; and provisions of adequate care package and food basket.
Kangethe
Simon
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Gaborone City, Botswana.