Poverty, TB and HIV infection: A vicious cycle

Journal of Health Population and Nutrition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 281-284

  Killewo, Japhet ^a  

^a ICDDRB Public Health Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; BCG VACCINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CROWDING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLITICS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; ZAMBIA;

HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS; ZAMBIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0036945208     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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