Key informant perspectives on policy- and service-level challenges and opportunities for delivering integrated sexual and reproductive health and HIV care in South Africa

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Smit, Jennifer A ^a   Church, Kathryn ^b   Milford, Cecilia ^a   Harrison, Abigail D ^c   Beksinska, Mags E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Family planning; HIV; Integrated delivery of healthcare; Reproductive health; Sexual health; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEXUALITY; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SEXUALITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84857399823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-4822369041     Document Type: Article

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