Stigmatizing attitudes and low levels of knowledge but high willingness to participate in HIV management: A community-based survey of pharmacies in Pune, India

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gupta, Amita ^a,b   Sane, Suvarna S ^c   Gurbani, Ajay ^a,d   Bollinger, Robert C ^a,b   Mehendale, Sanjay M ^c   Godbole, Sheela V ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL AIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; PHARMACY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; PHARMACIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 77956827171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-517     Document Type: Article

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