Challenges HIV positive married persons attending Kanyama Clinic face in using Condoms
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description: The ideal situation is that HIV positive married individuals ought to use condoms throughout their sexual life in view of preventing themselves from HIV reinfection except when the couple opts to have a child. However, from the time the ART program was scaled up in various health centers in Zambia almost five years ago, the rate of condom use among concordant HIV positive couples has not been studied and there are many issues that remain unknown. This study was designed to answer four research questions which are: (i) what is the condom use rate like among HIV positive married couples? (ii) Regarding their status of being HIV positive and married, what challenges do they experience sexually? (iii) In what ways do they cope? and (iv) noting the rate of condom use, why do they sexually behave in the manner they do ? The study was specifically carried out at Kanyama ART clinic in one of the consulting rooms and a qualitative research rooted in the abductive research was used. The data for this study were drawn only from HIV positive married patients on ARV’s attending the ART clinic. Theoretical sampling of HIV positive married patients was the main stay for the study. Each respondent was interviewed in-depth and data was analyzed using content analysis informed by grounded theory. The findings were that 14 (25 per cent) of the couples were consistent in using condoms when having sexual intercourse, 27 (47 per cent) were inconsistent and 16 (28 per cent) did not use any condoms at all. Respondents in this study experienced nine challenges which ranged from : (i) experiencing adverse effects due to condom use (ii) violence when denied sex without a condom, (iii) failure to convince partner to use a condom, (iv) desiring to have children and stopping to use a condom (v) quarrels on account of refusing to use a condom,(vi) desire for maximum pleasure (vii) lack of availability of condoms at the facility and cost of condoms which seemed to be high , (viii) refusal of advic…
abstract: The ideal situation is that HIV positive married individuals ought to use condoms throughout their sexual life in view of preventing themselves from HIV reinfection except when the couple opts to have a child. However, from the time the ART program was scaled up in various health centers in Zambia almost five years ago, the rate of condom use among concordant HIV positive couples has not been studied and there are many issues that remain unknown. This study was designed to answer four research questions which are: (i) what is the condom use rate like among HIV positive married couples? (ii) Regarding their status of being HIV positive and married, what challenges do they experience sexually? (iii) In what ways do they cope? and (iv) noting the rate of condom use, why do they sexually behave in the manner they do ? The study was specifically carried out at Kanyama ART clinic in one of the consulting rooms and a qualitative research rooted in the abductive research was used. The data for this study were drawn only from HIV positive married patients on ARV’s attending the ART clinic. Theoretical sampling of HIV positive married patients was the main stay for the study. Each respondent was interviewed in-depth and data was analyzed using content analysis informed by grounded theory. The findings were that 14 (25 per cent) of the couples were consistent in using condoms when having sexual intercourse, 27 (47 per cent) were inconsistent and 16 (28 per cent) did not use any condoms at all. Respondents in this study experienced nine challenges which ranged from : (i) experiencing adverse effects due to condom use (ii) violence when denied sex without a condom, (iii) failure to convince partner to use a condom, (iv) desiring to have children and stopping to use a condom (v) quarrels on account of refusing to use a condom,(vi) desire for maximum pleasure (vii) lack of availability of condoms at the facility and cost of condoms which seemed to be high , (viii) refusal of advic…
author: Chelu, Lazarous Chinoyi
language: en
keywords: HIV/AIDS, Condom Use, Protective measures
date published: 2011-07-07
date modified: 2026-07-27T22:06:05Z
provider: University of Zambia
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Zambia