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Table 1 Emergent thematic levels

From: “They make money off of us”: a phenomenological analysis of consumer perceptions of corruption in Kenya’s HIV response system

Thematic Levels

 

Service providers

Institutional

What is experienced

– Theft of resources designated for PLHIV

– Misdirection of resources from PLHIV to the public

– Denying services due to ethnicity and HIV

– Bribing officials to amend/issue legal documents

– Misdirection of resources from PLHIV to the public

– Difficult to access service system

How it manifests and affects PLHIV

– Heightens the cost burden of the diagnosis

– Longer hospital wait times

– Hard to access bank loans

– Lack of support services

– Consumers are denied ownership of the response system

Proposed solutions

– Representation within the response system

– Equity

– Legal protections of PLHIV Representation within the response system

– Transparency