Are preventive HIV interventions at airports effective?

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 205-209

  Gehring, Thomas M ^a,c   Widmer, Jeannette ^a   Kleiber, Dieter ^b   Steffen, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c ISPM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TOURISM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031743746     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.1998.tb00508.x     Document Type: Article

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