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Podcast: Decera Clinical Education Infectious Disease Podcast
Episode: What Patients Want in HIV Treatment and Prevention: Malaysia
Description: In this episode, Iskandar Azwa, MBChB, and patient advocate Andrew Tan Tze Tho discuss barriers to genuinely patient-centered HIV care in Malaysia and the surrounding region and offer calls to action for healthcare professionals for responding to patient preferences.They discuss health literacy programs and other forms of effective health communication, especially with respect to disparate communities. They also address the prevalence of late presentation in Malaysia and the importance of getting people tested and into care earlier.They then discuss the urgency of rapid initiation of antiretroviral therapy, discrepancies in access to health services...