A qualitative assessment of a community antiretroviral therapy group model in Tete, Mozambique
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Rasschaert, FreyaTelfer, Barbara
Lessitala, Faustino
Decroo, Tom
Remartinez, Daniel
Biot, Marc
Candrinho, Baltazar
Mbofana, Francisco
Van Damme, Wim
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2014-03-20
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To improve retention on ART, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Ministry of Health and patients piloted a community-based antiretroviral distribution and adherence monitoring model through Community ART Groups (CAG) in Tete, Mozambique. By December 2012, almost 6000 patients on ART had formed groups of whom 95.7% were retained in care. We conducted a qualitative study to evaluate the relevance, dynamic and impact of the CAG model on patients, their communities and the healthcare system.Publisher
Public Library of SciencePubMed ID
24651523Language
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1932-6203ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1371/journal.pone.0091544
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