Going beyond "ABC" to include "GEM": Critical reflections on progress in the HIV/AIDS epidemic

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-18

  Dworkin, Shari L ^a,b   Ehrhardt, Anke A ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTINENCE; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CONDOM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MIGRATION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SEROPREVALENCE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COERCION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONDOMS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROGRAM EVALUATION; SCHOOLS; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED NATIONS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33846144770     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.074591     Document Type: Review

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