Responding to HIV in Afghanistan

Lancet

Volumn 370, Issue 9605, 2007, Pages 2167-2169

  Saif ur Rehman, ^a   Rasoul, Mohammad Zafar ^b   Wodak, Alex ^c   Claeson, Mariam ^d   Friedman, Jed ^d   Sayed, Ghulam Dastagir ^d  

^a Ministry of Public Health   (Afghanistan)

^b Ministry of Counter Narcotics   (Afghanistan)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DRUG ABUSE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 37349106853     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61911-4     Document Type: Note

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