Screening for sexually transmitted diseases in rural women in Papua New Guinea: Are WHO therapeutic algorithms appropriate for case detection?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 401-411

  Passey, M ^a,b   Mgone, C S ^a   Lupiwa, S ^a   Tiwara, S ^a   Lupiwa, T ^a   Alpers, M P ^a  

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

^b MSF 2002   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; HEALTH CARE; MONITORING; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINITIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; VAGINAL DISCHARGE; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0031783563     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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