'All they do is pray': Community labour and the narrowing of 'care' during Mozambique's HIV scale-up

Global Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 7-24

  Kalofonos, Ippolytos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

community health; community home based care; ethnography; HIV AIDS; Mozambique

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MOZAMBIQUE; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84894354601     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.881527     Document Type: Article

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