Strengthening healthcare providers' skills to improve HIV services for MSM in Kenya

AIDS

Volumn 29, Issue , 2015, Pages S237-S240

  Van Der Elst, Elise M ^a,b   Gichuru, Evans ^a   Muraguri, Nicolas ^c   Musyoki, Helgar ^d   Micheni, Murugi ^a   Kombo, Bernadette ^a   Smith, Adrian D ^e   Graham, Susan M ^f   Sanders, Eduard J ^a,b,g   Operario, Don ^h  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Psychiatric Services   (United States)

^d Kenya National AIDS and STI Control Programme   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; KENYA; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIZATION; SKILL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; EDUCATION; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PROCEDURES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS;

EID: 84947869889     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000882     Document Type: Article

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