Nonresponse in repeat population-based voluntary counseling and testing for HIV in rural Malawi

Demography

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 651-665

  Obare, Francis ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALAWI; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; RURAL HEALTH; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS;

EID: 77955973591     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0115     Document Type: Article

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