• A study by Dadi et al. aimed to understand the perspectives of service providers and experts on the importance of self-management for People Living With HIV (PLWH).

• It was a qualitative study involving systematic expert interviews with experts and service providers.

• The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and translated into English.

• A thematic analysis was subsequently done using the Atlas TI version 9 software.

• The themes were divided into 2 broad dimensions: contextual and process.

• The problems identified under the contextual dimension were further sub-divided into:

1. Disease-specific

2. Facility related

3. Social environment related.

• The problems identified under the process/individual dimension included:

1. Ignorance

2. Low self-esteem

3. Lack of social support

• The study shows that there is a need to integrate self-management practices into standard management practices, especially for chronic diseases such as AIDS that have a long natural history and a lot of stigma and unawareness associated with them.

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