The high-risk sexual practices of crack-smoking sex workers recruited from the streets of three American cities

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 187-193

  Jones, Diana L ^a   Irwin, Kathleen L ^b   Inciardi, James ^c   Bowser, Benjamin ^d   Schilling, Robert ^e   Word, Carl ^d   Evans, Patricia ^d   Faruque, Sairus ^f   McCoy, H Virginia ^g   Edlin, Brian R ^b   Serrano, Yolanda ^b   McCoy, Clyde B ^c   Holmberg, Scott D ^a   El Bassel, Nabila ^e   Cabrera, Anna ^g   Flores, Yvonne ^g   Guzman, Nora ^g   Hogan, Robin ^g   Melendez, Nelson ^g   Nieves, Edgardo ^g   Ocasio, Antonio ^g   Rivera, Gustavo ^g   Rizzolo, Anthony ^g   Steele, Fred ^g   Turso, Sharon ^g   Alonso, Erik ^g   Aristide, Gibson ^g   Ashley, Melissa ^g   Bowens, Siouxniqua ^g   Buck Walden, Doris ^g   Comerford, Samuel ^g   DeVeaux Shepard, Valerie ^g   Dyer, Elaine ^g   Galvez, Marta ^g   Griffin, James ^g   Jones, Monica ^g   LoCascio, Virginia ^g   Magilner, Lawrence ^g   Mendez, Nilda ^g   McKay, Carolyn ^g   McQueen, Lulus ^g   Miles, Christine ^g   Miranda, Raniero ^g   Pagan, Lori ^g   Pierre, Rose Marie ^g   Salas, Rose ^g   Seoane, Lazara ^g   Shabazz, Bilal ^g   Walden, Elaine ^g   Ballesteros, Carlos ^g   Byrd, Sharon ^g   Curtis, Willie ^g   Dogan, Derrick ^g   Garner, Anthony ^g   Griffin, Mervyn ^g   Hawkins, Cordell ^g   Hunter Gamble, Dinese ^g   Iregui, Camilo ^g   Justice, Marcus ^g   Lee, Monica ^g   Lodico, Mark ^g   McGilroy, James ^g   Patterson, Veronica ^g   Penn, Sharon ^g   Perkins, Cassandra ^g   Persaud, Nalini ^g   Richardson, Charles ^g   Robertson, Noel ^g   Byers, Robert H ^a   Ludwig, Dona ^a   Johnson, Rebecca ^a   Wong, Leeyang ^a   Von Bargen, Jennifer ^a   Bidassie, Balmatee ^b   Kuo Hsien, Su ^b   McBride, Duane C ^c   Weatherby, Norman ^c   Rivers, James ^c   Larsen, Sandra ^a   Scott Schmidt, D ^a   Strauss, Donna ^f   Fletcher, Mary Ann ^c   Garcia Morales, Rolando ^c   Back, Arthur ^g   Narkunas, John ^a   more..

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d Bayview Hunter's Point Foundation   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f Assoc Drug Abuse Prev and Treatm   (United States)

^g MS E 44 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYPHILIS;

ADULT; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDOMS; CRACK COCAINE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK-TAKING; SAN FRANCISCO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031899442     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199804000-00002     Document Type: Article

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