"We, the AIDS people...": How antiretroviral therapy enables Zimbabweans living with HIV/AIDS to cope with stigma

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1004-1010

  Campbell, Catherine ^a   Skovdal, Morten ^a   Madanhire, Claudius ^b   Mugurungi, Owen ^c   Gregson, Simon ^d   Nyamukapa, Constance ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (Zimbabwe)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND CHILD CARE   (Zimbabwe)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; ZIMBABWE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; FEAR; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 79956358523     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.202838     Document Type: Article

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