HIV-related travel restrictions: trends and country characteristics
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HIV-related travel restrictions: trends and country characteristics
Introduction Increasingly, HIV-seropositive individuals cross international borders. HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay, and residence imposed by countries have important consequences for this mobile population. Our aim was to describe the geographical distribution of countries with travel restrictions and to examine the trends and characteristics of countries with such restrictions. Metho...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Health Action
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1654-9716,1654-9880
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.20472