Providing fertility care to hiv-1 serodiscordant couples: A biologist’s point of view

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-49

  Anderson, Deborahjean ^a   Politch, Josepha ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHICS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; NOTE; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUALITY; UNITED STATES;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85012567236     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/152651603321611980     Document Type: Note

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