Profile of an HIV testing and counseling unit in Bangladesh: Majority of new diagnoses among returning migrant workers and spouses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Urmi, Arunthia Zaidi ^a   Leung, Daniel T ^a,c   Wilkinson, Vanessa ^b   Miah, Mohammad Abdul Awal ^a   Rahman, Mahfuza ^a   Azim, Tasnim ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TESTING AND COUNSELING; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRANT WORKER; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SPOUSE; COUNSELING; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; MIGRATION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SEROLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; BANGLADESH; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SPOUSES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84949883815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141483     Document Type: Article

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