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Vietnamese women's struggle to access antiretroviral drugs in a context of free treatment

Nguyen, N.Thi.Thu.; Rasch, V.; Bygbjerg, I.Christian.; Mogensen, H.Overgaard.

Health Care for Women International 34(3-4): 209-226

2013

ISSN/ISBN: 0739-9332
PMID: 23394322
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2012.755979
Document Number: 573965
This qualitative study aims to explore how HIV positive women living in a northern province of Vietnam experience seeking antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in the public health system, and how they address obstacles encountered along the way. Despite the fact that antiretroviral drugs were freely provided, they were not always accessible for women in need. A variety of factors at the population and health system level interacted in ways that often made access to ARV drugs a complicated and time-consuming process. We have suggested changes that could be made at the health system level that may help facilitate women's ability to access treatment.

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