Mass media interventions for promoting HIV testing: Cochrane systematic review.
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چکیده
The aim of the Column is to highlight Cochrane systematic reviews of relevance to public health and to stimulate debate on relevance, feasibility, and acceptability. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is affecting all spheres of healthcare. In this issue we discuss the effectiveness of mass media interventions for promoting HIV testing. The Cochrane Collaboration (http://www.cochrane.org) is an international, non-profit organization that prepares and disseminates up-to-date systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions in order to help people make wellinformed decisions. Systematic reviews aim to answer focused healthcare questions by systematically identifying and evaluating all relevant research studies and synthesizing their results. If you are interested in contributing to the Cochrane Column or The Cochrane Collaboration, contact me at the South African Cochrane Centre.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- International journal of epidemiology
دوره 35 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006