Promises and challenges of faith-based AIDS care and support in mozambique

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 362-366

  Agadjanian, Victor ^a   Sen, Soma ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; SPIRITUAL HEALING; ALTRUISM; CLERGY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HOME CARE; MIDDLE AGED; MOZAMBIQUE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTRUISM; CHRISTIANITY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMEMAKER SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES; MOZAMBIQUE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RURAL HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 33846917746     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.085662     Document Type: Article

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