Treatment Buddies Improve Clinic Attendance among Women but Not Men on Antiretroviral Therapy in the Nyanza Region of Kenya.

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Published in AIDS Res Treat on March 22, 2016

Authors

Charles Kibaara1, Cinthia Blat2, Jayne Lewis-Kulzer2, Starley Shade2, Patrick Mbullo3, Craig R Cohen2, Elizabeth A Bukusi1

Author Affiliations

1: Family AIDS Care & Education Services (FACES), P.O. Box 614-40100, Kisumu, Kenya; Research Care and Training Program, Center for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya.
2: Family AIDS Care & Education Services (FACES), P.O. Box 614-40100, Kisumu, Kenya; Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
3: Research Care and Training Program, Center for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya.

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