Are low- and middle-income countries repeating mistakes made by high-income countries in the control of HIV for men who have sex with men?

Journal of AIDS and Clinical Research

Volumn 3, Issue SPL ISSUE4, 2012, Pages

  Qian, Han Zhu ^a,b   Vermund, Sten H ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Antiretroviral therapy; Developing countries; Disease control; HIV; Homosexual; Human rights; Prevention; Public policy; Transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871795109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21556113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4172/2155-6113.S4-e001     Document Type: Editorial

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