Challenges to community-based voluntary HIV testing and counselling

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-11

  Buscher, April L ^a  

^a MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COMMUNITY BASED VOLUNTARY COUNSELLING AND TESTING; COUNSELING; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANZANIA; THAILAND; ZIMBABWE;

AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84055198957     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70343-7     Document Type: Letter

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