Reducing HIV Infection and Abandonment of Babies
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Reducing HIV infection and abandonment of babies.
172 C R E D IT : M A L C O L M L IN T O N ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA—In the late 1980s, when Russia had detected only a smattering of HIV cases, 270 children became infected in several hospitals through the reuse of contaminated needles. “The country was in shock,” says Evgeny Voronin, who then ran an infectious-disease hospital in Ust-Izhora, on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. The Ministry of Hea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.329.5988.172