Issues in the management of sexually transmitted diseases in Papua New Guinea

Papua and New Guinea Medical Journal

Volumn , Issue 3, 1996, Pages 252-260

  Passey, Megan ^a  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTITRICHOMONAL AGENT;

ACTION RESEARCH; CHLAMYDIA--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; CHLAMYDIASIS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASES; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIONS; MALE; MELANESIA; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; RESEARCH REPORT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TREATMENT; TRICHOMONIASIS; TRICHOMONIASIS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; UTILIZATION OF HEALTH CARE;

ACTION RESEARCH; CHLAMYDIA--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; INFECTIONS; MELANESIA; OCEANIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TREATMENT; TRICHOMONIASIS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; UTILIZATION OF HEALTH CARE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITRICHOMONAL AGENTS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0030223196     PISSN: 00311480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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