Integrating HIV screening into routine health care in resource-limited settings

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages

  Bassett, Ingrid V ^a   Walensky, Rochelle P ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77951852950     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/651477     Document Type: Review

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