Factors affecting accessibility and acceptability of voluntary counselling and testing among high risk group (hrg) for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (hiv) in NWFP Pakistan

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 265-269

  Afridi, Naseem Khan ^a   Khan, Shahid ^b   Fatima, Shireen ^c  

^a Faculty of Mechanical Engineering   (Pakistan)

^b Federal Government Dispensary   (Pakistan)

^c KHYBER TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAKISTAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PROSTITUTION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PROSTITUTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 77950412086     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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