'It's risky to walk in the city with syringes': Understanding access to HIV/AIDS services for injecting drug users in the former Soviet Union countries of Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan

Globalization and Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Spicer, Neil ^a   Bogdan, Daryna ^b   Brugha, Ruairi ^c   Harmer, Andrew ^a   Murzalieva, Gulgun ^d   Semigina, Tetiana ^b  

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

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV MOHYLA ACADEMY   (Ukraine)

^c ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d Health Policy Analysis Center   (Kyrgyzstan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MALARIA; POLICY MAKING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STAKEHOLDER; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRUG ABUSE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; KYRGYZSTAN; LAW; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; UKRAINE;

KYRGYZSTAN; UKRAINE;

EID: 79960137496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-7-22     Document Type: Article

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