@article{337dd04a7a3c49d282f35e845d93691a,
title = "The heart in haart: Quality of life of patients enrolled in the public sector antiretroviral treatment programme in the free State Province of South Africa",
abstract = "This paper reports on the quality of life of patients enrolled in the public sector antiretroviral treatment programme in the Free State province of South Africa. Statistical analysis of cross-sectional data reveals that it is not access to treatment per se that enhances the quality of life of those who have come forward for ART. Rather, it is the health benefits associated with treatment, levels of stigmatisation, quality health care services, and the ability of persons to access support and care, both from within and outside the health care sector, that are independently associated with improvements in and differences in levels of quality of life.",
keywords = "Antiretroviral treatment, HIV/AIDS, Happiness, Life satisfaction, South Africa",
author = "Booysen, \{F. Le R.\} and \{Van Rensburg\}, \{H. C.J.\} and M. Bachmann and G. Louwagie and L. Fairall",
note = "Funding Information: The generous material and moral support of CIDA, DCI, DfID, IDRC, JEAPP, USAID, AUSAID and the NRF is gratefully acknowledged. In addition, those patients in the ART programme who were (and are still) willing to act as respondents in the study are sincerely thanked for sacrificing time and energy, and for frankly sharing views and experiences with the researchers. In similar vain, we wish to acknowledge the management and health care staff of the Free State Department of Health and of several local municipalities, who facilitated this research.",
year = "2007",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1007/s11205-006-9011-4",
language = "English",
volume = "81",
pages = "283--329",
journal = "Social Indicators Research",
issn = "0303-8300",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "2",
}
