Social position, gender role, and treatment adherence among Colombian women living with HIV/AIDS: social determinants of health approach Posición social, papel de género y adhesión al tratamiento en mujeres colombianas con VIH/sida: enfoque de los determinantes sociales de la salud

• Main Authors: Marcela Arrivillaga, Michael Ross, Bernardo Useche, Martha Lucia Alzate, Diego Correa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2009
• Subjects: Cooperación del paciente; VIH; SIDA; identidad de género; Colombia; Patient compliance; HIV; AIDS; gender identity; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Sida
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/a0fd35ecaa554ad7bd87420b7681083f

OBJECTIVE: To assess and analyze the associations between adherence to treatment and social position in women living with HIV/AIDS. METHOD: A cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational study among 269 Colombian women was conducted. Participants completed three questionnaires: a socio-demographic an...