Table 3.
Respondent Attitudes towards HIV Patients by ARV stocking status*
| Statement | Response | Stock ARVs (n = 73) |
Do not stock ARVs (n = 132) |
p-value** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "There is a professional obligation to provide medications to persons with HIV/AIDS" | Disagree | 6 (8.2) | 12 (9.1) | 0.007 |
| Not sure | 0 (0) | 16 (12.1) | ||
| Agree | 67 (91.8) | 104 (78.8) | ||
| "Patients with STIs/HIV are responsible for their illness" (N = 206) | Disagree | 12 (16.4) | 16 (12.2) | 0.184 |
| Not sure | 12 (16.4) | 36 (27.5) | ||
| Agree | 49 (67.1) | 79 (60.3) | ||
| "Patients with STIs/HIV have looser sexual morals" | Disagree | 6 (8.2) | 23 (17.4) | 0.079 |
| Not sure | 21 (28.8) | 45 (34.1) | ||
| Agree | 46 (63.0) | 64 (48.5) | ||
| "HIV patients cannot adhere to antiretroviral (ARV) regimens" | Disagree | 10 (13.7) | 8 (6.1) | < 0.01 |
| Not sure | 5 (6.8) | 70 (53.0) | ||
| Agree | 58 (79.5) | 54 (40.9) | ||
| "Worry about HIV exposure when I dispense medicines to an HIV patient" | Disagree | 71 (97.3) | 124 (93.9) | 0.484 |
| Not sure | 1 (1.4) | 6 (4.5) | ||
| Agree | 1 (1.4) | 2 (1.5) | ||
*N = 207 unless otherwise specified
**Association of 'Stocking ARV' with attitudes was tested by Pearson's χ2 test or Fisher's exact test when cell sizes were less than 5.