The role of social capital in successful adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Africa

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 0010-0011

  Binagwaho, Agnes ^a   Ratnayake, Niloo ^b  

^a Ministry of Health   (Rwanda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

AFRICA; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CAPITAL; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE COST; INTERVIEW; NOTE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 59249090856     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000018     Document Type: Short Survey

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