Ten Year Trends in Community HIV Viral Load in Barbados: Implications for Treatment as Prevention

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Landis, R Clive ^a   Branch Beckles, Songee Lynn ^a,b   Crichlow, Shawna ^b   Hambleton, Ian R ^a   Best, Anton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b Ministry of Health Barbados   (Barbados)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; BARBADOS; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREND STUDY; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; BARBADOS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84874763466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058590     Document Type: Article

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