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All I Need to Know About My ARV Therapy
"Tells what questions should be asked of your doctor about ART, side effects, and information you should share with your provider. Also includes a schedule to be filled out for ARTs."
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Building a cooperative doctor/patient relationship (2004)
"Guidelines for discussion between patient and doctor, intended to help both parties establish reasonable expectations of each other and to set up a climate of cooperation and joint responsibility for healing"
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HIV therapy (2003)
Part of an information series for HIV-positive people. This booklet has been written to help you decide what questions to ask your doctor about any course of treatment you might be considering.
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Talking With Your Doctor (2001)
Explores ways patients can develop a good relationship with their provider by sharing information and getting their questions answered. Provides a useful list of treatment related questions and gives examples of opening statements patients who have problems talking with their providers can use.
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Talking with Your HIV Doctor or Nurse (2003)
Gives tips on talking with your doctor or nurse, suggests tool you need to do so, and helps you understand why it is important to have a good relationship with your doctor or nurse.
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HCP


The Health Communication Partnership

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs in partnership with
Academy for Educational Development " Save the Children " The International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

USAID

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