HIV/AIDS surveillance in Egypt: Current status and future challenges

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 251-258

  Boutros, S ^a   Skordis, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; CULTURAL FACTOR; EGYPT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PATIENT COUNSELING; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; FORECASTING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIV INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EGYPT; FORECASTING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 77749270617     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26719/2010.16.3.251     Document Type: Article

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