Table 2 FGD and KII participant’s perceptions about community-held attitudes toward HIV research express1ed by plantation FGD and KII participants, August-October 2006
Hope | |
|---|---|
· | Eliminates or reduces people’s fears of dying from AIDS |
· | Discovers a cure for HIV or a means of preventing one from becoming infected |
· | Improves drugs to treat HIV/AIDS |
Opportunity | |
· | Improves community understanding of HIV |
· | Removes social threat of HIV diagnosis |
· | Provides care for HIV infected persons |
· | Enables the exchange of ideas between researchers and the community |
Wariness | |
· | Has no sustainability (leaves no representative behind to keep people informed) |
· | Fails to reach people because they are busy working (have no time or are too tired to participate) |
· | Has no practical value to the community (does not believe that HIV or AIDS exists) |
· | Uses people solely for experimental purposes (i.e., ‘guinea pigs’) |
· | Has no means of making HIV testing and antiretroviral drugs available to the community at an affordable cost |