title: HIV Prevention, Stigma, and Care in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Lat Vietnam.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A four-week interdisciplinary student/faculty research project in Vietnam served as a focused experience in understanding Vietnamese healthcare structures, functions, outcomes.
  
  
  METHODS
  Testing the validity and feasibility of a successful US HIV intervention program called Women's Voices Women's Lives© using group and individual interviews.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Healthcare inequities and poverty were found to paralyze individual, family, and community mobilization in HIV testing while stigma is a key barrier to both testing and care seeking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Vietnam has become a place where living with HIV infection challenges communities in a distinct socio-cultural context while incidence and prevalence rates continue to rise.
authors.forename: Rosanna F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: DeMarco
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cao
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000592:standards*; D006302:Health Services Research; D054625:Healthcare Disparities / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012934:Social Isolation; D013240:Stereotyping; D014744:Vietnam; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000592:standards*