Willingness to engage in peer-delivered HIV voluntary counselling and testing among people who inject drugs in a canadian setting

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 675-678

  Markwick, Nicole ^a,b   Ti, Lianping ^a,b   Callon, Cody ^a   Feng, Cindy ^c   Wood, Evan ^a,b   Kerr, Thomas ^a,b  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG USER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH POLICY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SMOKING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER [BRITISH COLUMBIA];

CANADA; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; URBAN POPULATION; VOLUNTEER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PEER GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; URBAN POPULATION; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84901913442     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2013-203707     Document Type: Article

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