Adding fuel to the fire: alcohol's effect on the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Published in Curr HIV/AIDS Rep on September 01, 2011

Authors

Judith A Hahn1, Sarah E Woolf-King, Winnie Muyindike

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA. judy.hahn@ucsf.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Mobile Technology to Extend Clinic-based Counseling for HIV+s in Uganda (EXTEND) | NCT03928418

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