Issues in Evaluating Knowledge-Based HIV/AIDS Programmes: Perspectives from Nigeria and South Africa

Author

Sassman, Rochelle ; Apena, Waliu ; Bali, Rajeev K. ; Naguib, Raouf NG ; Marshall, Ian M. ; Odetayo, Michael

Author_Institution

Biomed. Comput. & Eng. (BIOCORE) Appl. Res. Group, Coventry Univ., Coventry, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

6-8 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

121

Abstract

Nearly 40 million people worldwide are living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) with just 12% of those who urgently need treatment receiving it. South Africa and Nigeria are the two countries with the highest number of cases of HIV infections in the world. A knowledge divide has been identified as a major factor in the increase of HIV/AIDS in these two countries. Research also suggests that HIV/AIDS organizations are not working together to address this problem and that there is no overall coordination and no system to share knowledge within and across these organizations. This paper outlines the issues that need to be considered and suggests that knowledge management can be used to help evaluate the management of HIV/AIDS programs both in Nigeria and in South Africa.

Keywords

diseases; knowledge management; medical administrative data processing; patient treatment; Nigeria; South Africa; acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; human immunodeficiency virus; knowledge divide; knowledge management; knowledge-based HIV-AIDS program; Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Human immunodeficiency virus; Knowledge management; Organizations; Telemedicine; HIV/AIDS evaluation; Knowledge Management; Nigeria; South Africa;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Developments in E-systems Engineering (DeSE), 2011

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2186-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DeSE.2011.45

Filename

6149965