The OptAIDS project: Towards global halting of HIV/AIDS

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Smith, Robert J ^a   Gordon, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; FUNDING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; THEORETICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 72849116525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-S1-S1     Document Type: Editorial

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