Contact Tracing to Identify Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in a Rural Community

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 259, Issue 24, 1988, Pages 3563-3566

  Wykoff, Randolph F ^a   Heath, Clark W ^a   Hollis, Shirley L ^a   Leonard, Sharon T ^a   Quiller, Clarence B ^a   Jones, Jeffrey L ^a,c   Artzrouni, Marc ^b   Parker, Richard L ^a  

^a South Carolina Department of Health Environmental Control ^*  (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EDUCATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL CONTACT;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; COSTS AND BENEFITS; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HOMOSEXUALS; MALES; RISKS AND BENEFITS; SOUTH CAROLINA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES, MALE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RURAL HEALTH; SEX BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOUTH CAROLINA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023947292     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1988.03720240025029     Document Type: Article

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