The right not to know HIV-test results.

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Published in Lancet on April 15, 1995

Authors

M Temmerman1, J Ndinya-Achola, J Ambani, P Piot

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

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