Children As Caregivers : The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia

The global public health community has focused care and funding on TB and HIV in Zambia, but adult policy-makers, doctors, and humanitarians often ignore children's perspectives as they confront infectious diseases. Well-intentioned practioners fail to realize how children take on active caregi...

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Main Author: Hunleth, Jean (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 20170428
Subjects:
HIV
Online Access:Get fulltext
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