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 - RESPONSE: Debate about iatrogenic HIV transmission should not be a pretext for inaction

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 623-625

  Gisselquist, David ^a   Potterat, John J ^a   Brody, Stuart ^b  

^a University of Tubingen ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS INFECTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 4644250936     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0956462041724244     Document Type: Review

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