Changing from anonymous to confidential HIV voluntary counseling and testing in Uganda [3]

AIDS

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1930-1931

  Baryarama, Fulgentius ^a   Bunnell, Rebecca ^a   Ransom, Ray ^a   Mubangizi, Jotham ^b   Tumuhairwe, Esther ^b   Kalule, Josephine ^b   Hitimana Lukanika, Charles ^b   Mermin, Jonathan ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b AIDS Information Centre   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ISONIAZID;

CELL COUNT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REGISTRATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; UGANDA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

EID: 27544472767     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000189568.10471.fd     Document Type: Letter

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