Hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus coinfection among attendants of voluntary counseling and testing centre and HIV follow up clinics in Mekelle hospital

Pan African Medical Journal

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hadush, Hsaftom ^a,b   Gebre Selassie, Solomon ^b   Mihret, Adane ^b,c  

^a WOLLEGA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PATIENT COUNSELING; POPULATION RISK; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHIOPIA; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE;

CO-INFECTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SEROPREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876494476     PISSN: 19378688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2013.14.107.2302     Document Type: Article

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