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Disability Grant: a precarious lifeline for HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa

BACKGROUND: In South Africa, HIV/AIDS remains a major public health problem. In a context of chronic unemployment and deepening poverty, social assistance through a Disability Grant (DG) is extended to adults with HIV/AIDS who are unable to work because of a mental or physical disability. Using a mi...

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Autores principales:	Govender, Veloshnee, Fried, Jana, Birch, Stephen, Chimbindi, Natsayi, Cleary, Susan
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4459666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26050715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0870-8

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