Knight, Lucia
Schatz, Enid
Mukumbang, Ferdinand C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Missouri South African Exchange Program
Article History
Received: 22 June 2018
Accepted: 3 September 2018
First Online: 18 September 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study is part of a larger project “Addressing the social and health needs of older South Africans living with HIV”, which has received ethics clearance from the University of the Western Cape Research Ethics Committee (UWC REC) (Registration No: 15/7/103). In addition, we obtained ethical clearance from the Provincial Department of Health of the Western Cape Province and the permission of facility management prior to data collection. All study participants received information about the study and provided informed consent for their participation.The respondents were approached to talk about their health as older people regarding access to health care and support from the community no explicit reference to HIV in general nor their own HIV status was included in the information sheet as agreed with the ethics committee to prevent possible inadvertent disclosure and to allow respondents to be given the opportunity to self-disclose during the interviews (and all but one respondent disclosed their HIV status). This means that we respondents did not know they had been selected because of their HIV status and ensured they did not feel victimized by their inclusion in the study. Confidentiality of all information shared and the anonymity of the respondents were a precondition of the informed consent and have been ensured at all stages of the research.
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