Testing and linkage of patients to early care

AIDS

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1547-1548

  Vermund, Sten H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; KENYA; LESOTHO; MASS SCREENING; MOZAMBIQUE; NIGERIA; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; RWANDA; SAMPLE SIZE; SOUTH AFRICA; TANZANIA; URBAN AREA;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DATA COLLECTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 79960485226     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32834940b3     Document Type: Note

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