Risk factors for failure to be offered routine HIV testing among adult medical inpatients in Botswana

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 525-526

  Kessler, Jason A ^a,b   Ponce, Philip ^a   Saleshando, Gagoitswe ^a,b   Gluckman, Stephen ^a   Friedman, Harvey M ^a   Bisson, Gregory ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PRINCESS MARINA HOSPITAL   (Botswana)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

BOTSWANA; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COUNSELING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; BOTSWANA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 40549131549     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e31815b0d5b     Document Type: Letter

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