Five different ways of reasoning: Tanzanian healthcare workers' ideas about how to improve HIV prevention among same-sex attracted men.

Abstract in brief

• The study explores five main perspectives among Tanzanian healthcare workers on how to improve HIV prevention for men who have sex with men, including punitive actions, making health services more friendly, education efforts, better collaboration, and removing structural barriers.
• Researchers used qualitative methods like interviews, focus groups, and observation with 64 healthcare workers in Dar es Salaam and Tanga to gather diverse insights on their ideas and attitudes towards HIV prevention for this group.
• Healthcare workers' ideas ranged from enforcing punitive measures to promote prevention, to advocating for more inclusive and accessible health services, education, collaboration, and activism to eliminate structural barriers faced by men who have sex with men in accessing healthcare.