Missed opportunities for earlier HIV testing and diagnosis at the health facilities of Dessie town, North East Ethiopia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Fetene, Netsanet W ^a   Feleke, Amsalu D ^b  

^a EngenderHealth   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; ETHIOPIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL AUDIT; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICS;

AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; ETHIOPIA; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICAL AUDIT;

EID: 77953728880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-362     Document Type: Article

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