Assessing the Consequences of Stigma for Tuberculosis Patients in Urban Zambia

Anne Lia Cremers; Myrthe Manon de Laat; Nathan Kapata; Rene Gerrets; Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch; Martin Peter Grobusch

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119861

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Assessing the Consequences of Stigma for Tuberculosis Patients in Urban Zambia

Anne Lia Cremers,

Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Myrthe Manon de Laat,

Affiliation Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Nathan Kapata,

Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The National TB/Leprosy Control Programme, Lusaka, Zambia, University of Zambia—University College London (UNZA-UCL) program, Lusaka, Zambia
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Rene Gerrets,

Affiliation Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch,

Affiliations Julius Global Health, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Martin Peter Grobusch

* E-mail: m.p.grobusch@amc.uva.nl

Affiliation Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Assessing the Consequences of Stigma for Tuberculosis Patients in Urban Zambia

Anne Lia Cremers,
Myrthe Manon de Laat,
Nathan Kapata,
Rene Gerrets,
Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch,
Martin Peter Grobusch

Published: March 25, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119861

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