Central Asia: hotspot in the worldwide HIV epidemic

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 479-488

  Thorne, Claire ^a   Ferencic, Nina ^b   Malyuta, Ruslan ^b   Mimica, Jadranka ^b   Niemiec, Tomasz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOTHER AND CHILD   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; DIAMORPHINE; OPIATE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFGHANISTAN; ASIA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONDOM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TRAFFIC; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EASTERN EUROPE; EPIDEMIC; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; INFANT MORTALITY; KAZAKHSTAN; KYRGYZSTAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL STATUS; SYPHILIS; TAJIKISTAN; TURKMENISTAN; UNITED STATES; UZBEKISTAN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASIA, CENTRAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77953622811     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70118-3     Document Type: Review

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