An assessment of the Positive Partnership Project in Thailand: Key considerations for scaling-up microcredit loans for HIV-positive and negative pairs in other settings

Global Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 115-136

  Viravaidya, M ^a   Wolf, R C ^a   Guest, P ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

AIDS; Microfinance; Stigma and discrimination; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITIVE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL POPULATION; SCALE UP; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIGMA; THAILAND; URBAN POPULATION;

COMMERCE; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; SEXUAL PARTNERS; STEREOTYPING; THAILAND;

EID: 41949126109     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441690801903070     Document Type: Article

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