Stigma impedes AIDS prevention

Nature

Volumn 474, Issue 7349, 2011, Pages 29-31

  Karim, Salim S Abdool ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; EMTRICITABINE; MICROBICIDE; TENOFOVIR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CIRCUMCISION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MORTALITY; NOTE; PANDEMIC; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SOUTH AFRICA; STIGMA; TUBERCULOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL STIGMA;

EID: 79957945048     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/474029a     Document Type: Note

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