Monitoring HIV/AIDS in Europe's migrant communities and ethnic minorities

AIDS

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1867-1873

  Del Amo, Julia ^a   Bröring, Georg ^b   Hamers, Françoise F ^c   Infuso, Andrea ^c   Fenton, Kevin ^d  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b NIGZ Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AIDS; Ethnic minorities; HIV; Migrants; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MONITORING; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 4744351549     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200409240-00002     Document Type: Editorial

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