Late diagnosis of HIV in Europe: definitional and public health challenges
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Late HIV Diagnosis: Bad Medicine and Worse Public Health
I t is estimated that there are some 252,000–312,000 Americans living with HIV yet unaware that they carry this deadly virus [1]. Once they develop symptoms of HIV disease, most will be diagnosed. But by then, their immune systems will have experienced permanent damage, and thousands will have inadvertently infected their partners. One analysis reckons that annual HIV transmission rates in the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: AIDS Care
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0954-0121,1360-0451
DOI: 10.1080/09540120802183537