The absence of HIV seropositivity contrasts with a high prevalence of markers of sexually transmitted infections among registered female sex workers in Toliary, Madagascar

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-66

  Xueref, Serge ^a,b,d   Holianjavony, Jeanine ^c   Daniel, Raymond ^d   Kerouedan, Dominique ^d   Fabry, Jacques ^a   Vanhems, Philippe ^a  

^a Lab d'Epidemiol et de Sante P   (France)

^b Assoc Biologie Sans Frontieres   (France)

^c Centre Hospitalier Régional   (Madagascar)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Condom; Female sex workers; HIV infection; Madagascar; Sexually transmitted infections

Indexed keywords

CONDOM USE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MADAGASCAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV ANTIBODIES; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MADAGASCAR; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

MADAGASCAR;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0037247773     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.00986.x     Document Type: Article

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