Interventions for educating traditional healers about STD and HIV medicine

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Sorsdahl, Katherine ^a   Ipser, J ^b   Stein, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICINE; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 44949098598     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007190     Document Type: Review

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