"We are just supposed to be quiet": The production of adherence to antiretroviral treatment in urban Tanzania

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 158-182

  Mattes, Dominik ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adherence; Anthropology of pharmaceuticals; Antiretroviral therapy; HIV=AIDS; Tanzania; Therapeutic citizenship

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952647600     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2011.552454     Document Type: Article

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