AIDS/HIV and university students in Delhi, India: Knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 37-57

  Sachdev, Paul ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL WORK; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 0031936028     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v26n04_03     Document Type: Article

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