Potential for medical transmission of HIV in Ethiopia

AIDS

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 348-350

  Priddy, Frances ^a   Tesfaye, Fikru ^b   Mengistu, Yohannes ^b   Rothenberg, Richard ^a   Fitzmaurice, Dorothy ^a   Mariam, Damen Haile ^b   Del Rio, Carlos ^a   Oli, Kebede ^b   Worku, Alemayehu ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SYRINGE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; STERILIZATION; SYRINGES;

EID: 15444371752     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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