Barriers to free antiretroviral treatment access among kothi-identified men who have sex with men and aravanis (transgender women) in Chennai, India

AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1687-1694

  Chakrapania, Venkatesan ^a   Newmanb, Peter A ^b   Shunmugama, Murali ^a   Dubrowc, Robert ^c  

^a Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+)   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Antiretroviral treatment; India; Men who have sex with men; Transgender women

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADULT; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PREJUDICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL STIGMA; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84855646877     PISSN: 09540121     EISSN: 13600451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2011.582076     Document Type: Article

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