Counselling improves follow-up HIV testing at Week 6 for HIV postexposure prophylaxis recipients

Sexual Health

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 288-289

  Farrugia Parsons, Bianca ^a   Fisher, Kate ^a   Cordery, Damien ^b   Couldwell, Deborah ^a,c  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; HIV prevention; non occupational postexposure prophylaxis (NPEP); Sydney.

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONSULTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; RECIPIENT; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL HEALTH; SOCIAL WORKER;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; COUNSELING; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; VICTORIA;

EID: 84879584203     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: 14498987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH12190     Document Type: Article

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