Human immunodeficiency virus test refusal in pregnancy: A challenge to voluntary testing

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 540-545

  Carusi, Daniela ^a   Learman, Lee A ^a   Posner, Samuel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MANDATORY TESTING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0032054767     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(97)00714-X     Document Type: Article

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