HIV and India: Looking into the abyss

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 295-304

  Pais, Prem ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; AIDS; HIV; human immunodeficiency virus; India

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INDIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; REVIEW; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2;

AIDS EPIDEMIC; HIV TRANSMISSION;

INDIA;

EID: 0029669882     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1996.d01-47.x     Document Type: Review

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