'Driving the devil away': Qualitative insights into miraculous cures for AIDS in a rural Tanzanian ward

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Roura, Maria ^a,b   Nsigaye, Ray ^b   Nhandi, Benjamin ^b   Wamoyi, Joyce ^a   Busza, Joanna ^a   Urassa, Mark ^b   Todd, Jim ^a   Zaba, Basia ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

AFRICAN MEDICINE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA;

ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; RURAL POPULATION; SPIRITUAL THERAPIES; TANZANIA;

EID: 77954685228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-427     Document Type: Article

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