"If the patients decide not to tell what can we do?"- TB/HIV counsellors' dilemma on partner notification for HIV

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Njozing, Barnabas N ^a,b   Edin, Kerstin E ^b   Sebastián, Miguel San ^b   Hurtig, Anna Karin ^b  

^a St Mary Soledad Catholic Hospital   (Cameroon)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; COUNSELOR; ETHICS; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL STAFF; MORALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT COUNSELING; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79957877093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698X-11-6     Document Type: Article

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