Healthcare workers potentially exposed to HIV: an update

Kaveh Asanati¹, Azeem Majeed¹, Lara Shemtob¹, Fiona Cresswell^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Primary Care & Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK.
² Department of Global Health and Infection, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, BN1 9PX, UK.
³ MRC-UVRI-London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, PO Box 49, Uganda.

Kaveh Asanati et al. J R Soc Med. 2022 Aug.

. 2022 Aug;115(8):286-288.

doi: 10.1177/01410768221107122. Epub 2022 Jun 20.

Kaveh Asanati¹, Azeem Majeed¹, Lara Shemtob¹, Fiona Cresswell^{2

3}

¹ Department of Primary Care & Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK.
² Department of Global Health and Infection, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, BN1 9PX, UK.
³ MRC-UVRI-London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, PO Box 49, Uganda.

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