Which of the following are illustrations of how the administration of biomedically derived therapies, such as ARV therapy, may be affected by different cultural and political settings?
A) In some settings, one's status with regard to infectious diseases such as HIV can lead to social ostracism.
B) Patients may not be willing to join self-help groups unless the groups are seen to offer tangible material benefits.
C) Patients in some cultural settings may not separate their own well-being from that of their families.
D) Patient organizing, such as that seen in the Brazilian case, may be undermined in other places because of government prohibitions on grassroots organizing.
E) All of the above.
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