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Article: African-American Clinicians Providing HIV Care: The Experience of the National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center
- Article from:
- Journal of the National Medical Association
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Financial support: Supported in part by a grant from the AIDS Education and Training Centers, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration (H4AHA 01082-03). The contents of the manuscript are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the funding agency.
This analysis compares patient and provider characteristics of African-American clinicians and non-African-American clinicians who called the National HIV Telephone Consultation Service (Warmline). In 2004, a total of 2,077 consultations were provided for 1,020 clinicians, 70 (6.9%) of whom were African American. Compared to the non-African-American group, a higher percentage of ...