Predictors of visits to commercial sex workers by male attendees at sexually transmitted disease clinics in southern Vietnam

AIDS

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 719-725

  Thuy, Nguyen Thi Thanh ^a   Lindan, Christina P ^c   Phong, Truong Hoai ^c   Van Dat, Tran ^b   Nhung, Vo Tuyet ^a   Barclay, John ^b   Khiem, Ha Ba ^c  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Center for Preventive Medicine   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

HIV; Men; Risk behavior; Sex workers; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; REAGINIC ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONDOM; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; REAGIN TEST; RURAL AREA; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; URETHRITIS; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VIETNAM;

EID: 0033032073     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199904160-00013     Document Type: Article

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