Voices from the frontline: Counsellors' perspectives on TB/HIV collaborative activities in the Northwest Region, Cameroon

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

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

^a St Mary Soledad Catholic Hospital   (Cameroon)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAMEROON; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 82255195356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-328     Document Type: Article

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