HIV counselling - A luxury or necessity?

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-23

  Meursing, Karla ^a,c   Sibindi, Flora ^b  

^a MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

^b Macfarlane Burnet Centre ^*  (Zimbabwe)

^c Departments International Collaborative   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; COPING BEHAVIOR; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REVIEW; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0034059945     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/15.1.17     Document Type: Review

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