'I cry every day': Experiences of patients co-infected with HIV and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1128-1133

  Isaakidis, Petros ^a   Rangan, Sheela ^b   Pradhan, Anagha ^c   Ladomirska, Joanna ^a   Reid, Tony ^a   Kielmann, Karina ^d  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^b Maharashtra Association of Anthropological Sciences   (India)

^c Independent Researcher   (India)

^d QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adherence; Co infection; HIV; India; Multidrug resistant tuberculosis; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

DATA SET; DISEASE TREATMENT; FATIGUE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIABILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; EXPERIENCE; EXTENDED FAMILY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INTERVIEW; LETHARGY; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; NAUSEA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL STIGMA; SPOUSE; STRESS; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; TINNITUS; VOMITING;

ADHERENCE; CO-INFECTION; HIV; INDIA; MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; QUALITATIVE;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CAREGIVERS; COINFECTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI;

EID: 84881666442     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12146     Document Type: Article

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