Integrating HIV Screening into Routine Health Care in Resource‐Limited Settings
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Integrating HIV screening into routine health care in resource-limited settings.
The United Nations is committed to achieving universal access to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care, treatment, and prevention. Although the gateway to HIV care and secondary prevention is knowledge of serostatus, use of voluntary counseling and testing in resource-limited settings with the highest burden of HIV infection and AIDS has been limited. On the basis of evidence of increased pat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/651477