Interactions between HIV/AIDS and the environment: Toward a syndemic framework

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 253-261

  Talman, Anna ^a   Bolton, Susan ^a   Walson, Judd L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MANPOWER; REVIEW;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872560388     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300924     Document Type: Article

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