ACCESS AND UTILIZATION OF ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS CENTRES IN BENUE STATE, NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorAYOO, Nicholas Terfa
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-09T09:55:28Z
dc.date.available2015-04-09T09:55:28Z
dc.date.issued2014-10
dc.descriptionA THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA, NIGERIA OCTOBER, 2014en_US
dc.description.abstractThe study was conducted on access and utilization of Antiretroviral drugs centres in Benue State, Nigeria. The objectives of the study are to determine the location of ART centres, map out all ART centres, create a spatial database for ART centres, assess the distribution of ART centres in relation to people living with HIV/AIDS and to assess the utilization of ART centres. A list of ART centres for individual LGAs was obtained from Ministry of Health Makurdi. The population data was obtained from National Population Commission, which is based on 2006 National Census. The population data was used to calculate the estimated number of PLWHA in each LGA. The administrative map of the study area was collected from Ministry of Land and Survey Makurdi which served as a base map. Structured questionnaire was administered to 400 respondents. Four hundred PLWHA were randomly selected from fifteen purposively selected ART centres in the three LGAs one from each senatorial district. A global positioning System was used to obtain the geographical coordinates of ART drug Centres. ArcGIS software version 10.1 was used in conjunction with MS Excel for mapping and SSPS version 20.1 was used for statistical analysis. Point maps were then generated using ArcGIS, and then joined with other map layers so as to perform GIS analysis. GIS analysis tools used were, query analysis, overlaid analysis and nearest neighbour analysis to determine the location and distribution of ART centres, assess the spatial distribution of ART drug centres providing ART services in relation to the number of PLWHA and the distribution pattern. Comparisons were made between the distribution of ART centre with population and estimated number of PLWHA. The study reveals that, there were 46 ART drug centres in the study area with 15.2% of them located in Makurdi the State capital. The study also reveals that 93.5% of the ART drug centres are located in urban areas while 6.5% were located in rural areas. Also, 58.7% were Government owned while 41.3% were privately owned. The study further reveals that, 84.8% of ART drug centres that offered ARV services are of the secondary type of healthcare facilities while 10.9% and 4.3% were of primary and tertiary healthcare facility type. The pattern of distribution of ART drug centres in the study was done using nearest neighbour analysis in ArcMap with an index of - 1.080209 which shows the pattern does not appear to be significantly different than random with P- Value of 0.280049. The study recommends that, more centers should be cited in rural areas and LGA areas with disproportionate centers.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6360
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectACCESS,en_US
dc.subjectUTILIZATION,en_US
dc.titleACCESS AND UTILIZATION OF ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS CENTRES IN BENUE STATE, NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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