Sexually transmitted infections and HIV in a rural community in the Lesotho highlands

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-42

  Colvin, M ^a   Sharp, B ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

HIV; Sexually transmitted infections

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REAGIN TEST; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AFRICA; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; URINALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CONTRACEPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LESOTHO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 0034076131     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.76.1.39     Document Type: Article

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