Two-year impacts on employment and income among adults receiving antiretroviral therapy in Tamil Nadu, India: A cohort study

AIDS

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-246

  Thirumurthy, Harsha ^a,b   Jafri, Aisha ^c,d   Srinivas, Govindarajulu ^e   Arumugam, Viswanathan ^f   Saravanan, Ramasamy M ^f   Angappan, Sathish K ^g   Ponnusamy, Manivannan ^g   Raghavan, Subhasree ^g   Merson, Michael ^d   Kallolikar, Shambhu ^f  

^a IL   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

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

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e German Leprosy   (India)

^f Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society   (India)

^g Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India   (India)

Author keywords

antiretroviral therapy; economic evaluation; employment outcomes; HIV AIDS; India

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 78650902668     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e328341b928     Document Type: Article

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