The impact in the UK of the Central and Eastern European HIV epidemics

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1266-1271

  Delpech, Valerie C ^a   Yin, Z ^a   Abernethy, J ^a   Hill, C ^a   Logan, L ^a   Chadborn, T R ^a   Rice, B D ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central Europe; Eastern Europe; HIV; Migration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EASTERN EUROPE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 69949114947     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268809002155     Document Type: Article

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