"You are wasting our drugs": Health service barriers to HIV treatment for sex workers in Zimbabwe

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mtetwa, Sibongile ^a,b   Busza, Joanna ^c   Chidiya, Samson ^d   Mungofa, Stanley ^e   Cowan, Frances ^a,b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b CENTRE FOR SEXUAL HEALTH AND HIV AIDS RESEARCH   (Zimbabwe)

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

^d UNFPA   (Zimbabwe)

^e Harare City Health   (Zimbabwe)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTITUTION; SOCIAL STIGMA; ZIMBABWE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SEX WORKERS; SOCIAL STIGMA; YOUNG ADULT; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84880942550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-698     Document Type: Article

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