Iranian persons living with HIV/AIDS unveil the epidemic of stigma (An overview of patients' attitudes towards the disease and community in first GIPA gathering in Tehran)

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 77-80

  Sherafat Kazemzadeh, Roya ^a   Shahraz, Saeed ^b   Mohaghegh Shalmani, Hamid ^a   Ghaziani, Tahereh ^a   Faghahati, Leila ^a   Zali, Mohammad Reza ^b   Mohraz, Minoo ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANGER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONFIDENTIALITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRUG ABUSE; EPIDEMIC; FEAR; GRIEF; GUILT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; IRAN; LAW; LIFE SATISFACTION; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT RIGHT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; REVIEW; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0041471222     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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