Caring for Caregivers of People Living with HIV in the Family: A Response to the HIV Pandemic from Two Urban Slum Communities in Pune, India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Kohli, Rewa ^a   Purohit, Vidula ^b   Karve, Latika ^a   Bhalerao, Vinod ^a   Karvande, Shilpa ^b   Rangan, Sheela ^b   Reddy, Srikanth ^a   Paranjape, Ramesh ^a   Sahay, Seema ^a  

^a NATIONAL AIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Maharashtra Association of Anthropological Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMOTION; FAMILY CAREGIVER; FEMALE; FINANCE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; NURSING; PANDEMIC; PATIENT CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESPITE CARE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIGMA; URBAN AREA;

CAREGIVERS; EMPATHY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PANDEMICS; POVERTY AREAS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84866376632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044989     Document Type: Article

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