Factors Affecting African-American Participation in AIDS Research
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency SyndromesPublished 1 July 2000
Sohini Sengupta, Ronald P. Strauss, Robert F. DeVellis, Sandra Crouse Quinn, Brenda M. DeVellis, William B. Ware
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Distrust about research institutions is a significant barrier to recruiting African Americans in AIDS clinical trials and issues of distrust need to be acknowledged by researchers to develop better recruitment and retention strategies when conductingAIDS clinical trials in African‐American communities.
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Hsieh, Szu-Min; Hung, Chien-Ching; Lu, Po-Liang; Chen, Mao-Yuan; Chang, Shan-Chwen Author Information
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