CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL WORKERS AND PARA-PROFESSIONALS OF SOCIAL SERVICES IN ACHIEVING THE 95-95-95 HIV GOALS
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13879946Keywords:
Social worker, Para-professional, Social service and 95 95 95 ObjectivesAbstract
Since 2015, Cameroon has subscribed to the 90 90 90 targets launched by UNAIDS in 2014, which it was to achieve in 2020 in order to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030. Cameroon had the figures of 54.45%; 93.1% and 80.1% in 2020 respectively for the three 90s. This is thanks to a strengthening of social service personnel. Despite the efforts made, we are far from achieving the 1st and 3rd targets. In addition, UNAIDS since 2020 has boldly increased these targets to 95 95 95 by 2030. The general objective of the review is to document the contribution of social service personnel in achieving the 95 95 95 HIV targets.
We opted for a narrative review. After breaking down the title into concepts, we found synonyms and then translated it into English. This allowed us to establish a search equation that we entered into the databases (Hinari, Pubmed and Google scholar) from the internet. However, we have also used the university library for research. Included in this review were: studies involving as actors either social workers or paraprofessionals of social services working in the context of HIV; studies highlighting the role or impact of these different actors in achieving the objectives 95 95 95 and the publication interval of the article had to be between 2014 and 2021.
After excluding duplicates, titles not belonging to the inclusion criteria followed by a critical analysis of articles, we kept 75 documents among which 36 articles. Social service personnel include social workers and paraprofessionals of social services. These personnel exist all over the world and play a positive role in improving the quality of life of people living with HIV as well as achieving the 95 95 95 objectives.
However, the lack of training among social service personnel in Africa, the lack of accreditation and standardization of training, the lack of regulation around the profession, the lack of PSS and the lack of retraining of these personnel, have allowed us to question the level of competence, professionalization and professionalism of social workers and para-professionals of HIV social services.
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