"I Have to Push Him with a Wheelbarrow to the Clinic": Community Health Workers' Roles, Needs, and Strategies to Improve HIV Care in Rural South Africa.

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Published in AIDS Patient Care STDS on August 01, 2016

Authors

Kelsey B Loeliger1,2, Linda M Niccolai2, Lillian N Mtungwa3, Anthony Moll3, Sheela V Shenoi1

Author Affiliations

1: 1 Yale AIDS Program, Yale University School of Medicine , New Haven, Connecticut.
2: 2 Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale University School of Public Health , New Haven, Connecticut.
3: 3 Philanjalo NGO , Tugela Ferry, South Africa .

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