Knowledge of students regarding hepatitis and HIV/AIDS of a private medical University in Karachi

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 285-288

  Anjum, Qudsia ^a   Siddiqui, Hemna ^a   Ahmed, Yousuf ^a   Rizvi, S Raza ^a   Usman, Yaseen ^a  

^a ZIAUDDIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PROPHYLAXIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGICAL GLOVE; WASTE DISPOSAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PAKISTAN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AWARENESS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PAKISTAN; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 27144436906     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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