Understanding delay to medical care for HIV infection: the long-term non-presenter.

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Published in AIDS on January 05, 2001

Authors

J H Samet1, K A Freedberg, J B Savetsky, L M Sullivan, M D Stein

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health, MA, USA. jsamet@bu.edu

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