A qualitative assessment of a community antiretroviral therapy group model in Tete, Mozambique

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Rasschaert, Freya ^a   Telfer, Barbara ^b   Lessitala, Faustino ^b   Decroo, Tom ^b   Remartinez, Daniel ^b   Biot, Marc ^c   Candrinho, Baltazar ^d   Mbofana, Francisco ^e   Van Damme, Wim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Belgium)

^d Ministery of Health   (Mozambique)

^e NONE   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COST CONTROL; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MOZAMBIQUE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PEER GROUP; PILOT STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; VULNERABLE POPULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HIV INFECTIONS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOZAMBIQUE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84925287202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091544     Document Type: Article

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