Hopes interrupted: Accessing and experiences of antiretroviral therapy in South Africa

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 147-151

  Fried, Jana ^a   Harris, Bronwyn ^b   Eyles, John ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PATIENT COUNSELING; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AFRICA; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84857391506     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050140     Document Type: Article

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