Introduction: Linkage, engagement, and retention in HIV care: Essential for optimal individual-and community-level outcomes in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages

  Mayer, Kenneth Hugh ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FENWAY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; UNITED STATES;

ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 79953803086     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciq043     Document Type: Article

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