MOTION: Experts have not just been 'seeing what they wanted to see' by 'ignoring' health care transmission of AIDS in Africa. Sexual transmission is indeed the major mode of transmission - PROPOSAL: Initiatives to prevent sexual transmission of HIV in Africa should not be over-shadowed by current debate

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 619-622

  Dougan, S ^a   Tomkins, S E ^a   Harris, J P ^a   Ncube, F M ^a   Evans, B G ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION RISK; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AFRICA; CHILD; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4644249122     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0956462041724262     Document Type: Review

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