Low HIV and high STD among commercial sex workers in a brothel in Bangladesh: Scope for prevention of larger epidemic

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-47

  Sarkar, Swarup ^a   Islam, Nazrul ^b   Durandin, Florence ^a   Siddiqui, Nahid ^a   Panda, Samiran ^c   Jana, Smarajit ^d   Corbitt, Gerald ^e   Klapper, Paul ^e   Mandal, Debashis ^f  

^a CARE Bangladesh   (Bangladesh)

^b National AIDS Committee   (Bangladesh)

^c INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (India)

^e MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL BOLTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HIV; PCR; Sex workers; STDs

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHLAMYDIASIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SEROLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ASIA; BANGLADESH; BEHAVIOR; CHLAMYDIA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EPIDEMICS; GONORRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; INFECTIONS; MEASUREMENT; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTES--WOMEN; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SEX BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOUTHERN ASIA; SYPHILIS; URBAN POPULATION; VIRAL DISEASES;

BANGLADESH; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PROSTITUTION; SYPHILIS;

EID: 0031884927     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0956462981920856     Document Type: Article

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