Abstract:
Disclosure of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to infected older children and adolescents is
essential for both personal health maintenance and HIV prevention within the larger population. Non-disclosure of
HIV status has been identified as one of the potential barriers to optimum adherence especially in children and
adolescents. Like many other countries in the SSA region, Ghana has significant number of children and
adolescents infected by HIV, who have increased survival times, due to increased access to ART. However, both
family caregivers and healthcare workers face an array of challenges with the disclosure process, including the
timing, what information about the child’s HIV status should be shared with him/her and how to go about it. The
aim of the study was to identify family caregiver factors associated with non-disclosure of HIV status to infected
children and adolescents accessing Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) at the three main ART sites within the Central
Region of Ghana.
