Selected article for: "chronic disease and HIV people"

Author: Ho, Lai Peng; Goh, Esther C. L.
Title: How HIV patients construct liveable identities in a shame based culture: the case of Singapore
  • Document date: 2017_6_22
  • ID: rws2twyo_6
    Snippet: Singapore is a low-prevalence country for HIV, with most acquiring the infection through heterosexual transmission, although in recent years men who have sex with men (MSM) constituted about half of the newly diagnosed cases (Ministry of Health, 2016) . HIV has become a manageable chronic disease with the accessibility to and availability of ART (Lee, 2015) . Although the drugs are not subsidised, financial assistance is available to citizens who.....
    Document: Singapore is a low-prevalence country for HIV, with most acquiring the infection through heterosexual transmission, although in recent years men who have sex with men (MSM) constituted about half of the newly diagnosed cases (Ministry of Health, 2016) . HIV has become a manageable chronic disease with the accessibility to and availability of ART (Lee, 2015) . Although the drugs are not subsidised, financial assistance is available to citizens who are unable to afford treatment (Ng, 2012) . People with HIV in Singapore can also access generic ART, which is available in other countries (Lee, 2015) .

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