Barriers associated with the utilization of continued care among HIV-infected women who had previously enrolled in a private sector PMTCT program in Maharashtra, India

AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 642-648

  Panditrao, Mayuri ^a,d   Darak, Shrinivas ^b,c   Jori, Vijaya ^c   Kulkarni, Sanjeevani ^c   Kulkarni, Vinay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c PRAYAS   (India)

^d CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care utilization; HIV; India; Loss to follow up; PMTCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOST TO FOLLOW-UP; MOTHERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIVATE SECTOR; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOST TO FOLLOW-UP; MOTHERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRIVATE SECTOR; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84924761427     PISSN: 09540121     EISSN: 13600451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2014.990868     Document Type: Article

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