The feasibility, demand, and effect of integrating primary care services with HIV voluntary counseling and testing: Evaluation of a 15-year experience in Haiti, 1985-2000

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 470-475

  Peck, Robert ^a,c   Fitzgerald, Daniel W ^b   Liautaud, Bernard ^a   Deschamps, Marie Marcelle ^a   Verdier, Rose Irene ^a   Beaulieu, Marie Eugene ^a   GrandPierre, Reynold ^a   Joseph, Patrice ^a   Severe, Patrice ^a   Noel, Francine ^a,c   Wright, Peter ^c   Johnson Jr , Warren D ^b   Pape, Jean William ^a,b  

^a Grp Haitien d'Etude Sarcome K/I   (Haïti)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing country; HIV care; HIV prevention; Voluntary counseling and testing

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; COUNSELING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0038637321     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126334-200308010-00007     Document Type: Article

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