Is the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic slowing down in India?

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-39

  Kannangai, R ^a   Ramalingam, S ^a   Vijayakumar, T S ^a   David, S ^a   Sridharan, G ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DATA ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; SEROLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TIME FACTORS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 33645467645     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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