Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of Jamaican adolescents with HIV/AIDS

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 332-338

  Walker, E ^a   Mayes, B ^a   Ramsay, H ^a   Hewitt, H ^a   Bain, B ^a   Christie, Celia D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JAMAICA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; DERMATITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; JAMAICA; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 10644270773     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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