Ethical and public health considerations in HIV counseling and testing: Policy implications

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 271-278

  Yeatman, Sara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TREATMENT; ETHICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEGAL ASPECT; MANDATORY TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT RIGHT; SERODIAGNOSIS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MANDATORY TESTING; PATIENT RIGHTS; WORLD HEALTH;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 36949018191     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: 17284465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2007.00139.x     Document Type: Article

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