Quality of Life among Injection Drug Users Living with or without HIV/AIDS in Taiwan: A Case Control Group Design
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Tony Szu-Hsien Lee1, Cheng-Shi Shiu2, Yung-Change Tuan3, Wei-Hsin Wu4, Chun-Wei Huang5, Muh-Yong Yen6, Chun-Hsiu Lin1, Ling-Chun Shen1 and Chao-Kuang Lin7* 1Department of Health Promotion and Health Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan 2School of Social Service Administration & Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 3Taipei County Hospitals and Taiwan Medical University, Taiwan 4Department of Psychiatry, Keelung Hospital, Department of Health, Taiwan 5Department of Psychiatry, Lotung Poh-Ai Hospital, Taiwan 6Department of Infection, Taipei City Hospital, Branch for Disease Control and Prevention, Taiwan 7Education Center for Humanities and Social Sciences National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
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تاریخ انتشار 2013