Assessing the accessibility of HIV care packages among tuberculosis patients in the Northwest Region, Cameroon

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Njozing, Nwarbébé Barnabas ^a,b   Miguel, San Sebastian ^b   Tih, Pius Muffih ^c   Hurtig, Anna Karin ^b  

^a St Mary Soledad Catholic Hospital   (Cameroon)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Board   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77949457289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-129     Document Type: Article

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