Sexual networks in Uganda: Mixing patterns between a trading town, its rural hinterland and a nearby fishing village

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 495-500

  Pickering, H ^a   Okongo, M ^a   Ojwiya, A ^a   Yirrell, D ^a   Whitworth, J ^a  

^a UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

Author keywords

AIDS; Sexual mixing; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; UGANDA; URBAN AREA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BEHAVIOR; COMMUTING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; HIV INFECTIONS--TRANSMISSION; MEASUREMENT; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTITUTES--WOMEN; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RURAL POPULATION; SEX BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; STUDIES; TRAVEL AND TOURISM; UGANDA; VIRAL DISEASES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UGANDA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0030799669     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0956462971920640     Document Type: Article

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