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‘Everyone has a secret they keep close to their hearts’: challenges faced by adolescents living with HIV infection at the Kenyan coast
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Background: The upsurge in the uptake of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has led to a significant increase in the survival of vertically acquired HIV infected children, many of whom are currently living into adolescence and early adulthood. However little if anything is known of the lived experiences and the challenges faced by HIV positive adolescents in the African context. We set out to investigate psychosocial challenges faced by HIV infected adolescents on the Kenyan coast. Methods: A tota...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central
- Journal:
- BMC Public Health More from this journal
- Volume:
- 16
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- Article number: 197 (2016)
- Publication date:
- 2016-02-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-02-10
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1471-2458
- Pmid:
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26927422
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English
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pubs:609300
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uuid:92a5a2ee-6e70-4556-8c23-23d5b54f2a48
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pubs:609300
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609300
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2018-10-02
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- Abubakar et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- © 2016 Abubakar et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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