Provision of syndromic treatment of sexually transmitted infections by community pharmacists: A potentially underutilized HIV prevention strategy

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 609-613

  Ward, Kim ^a,c   Butler, Nadine ^a   Mugabo, Pierre ^a   Klausner, Jeffrey ^b   McFarland, Willi ^b   Chen, Sanny ^b   Schwarcz, Sandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; GENITAL ULCER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHARMACIST; PRESCRIPTION; RURAL AREA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN AREA; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VIRUS INFECTION;

COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PHARMACISTS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; ULCER; URBAN POPULATION; URETHRAL DISEASES; VAGINAL DISCHARGE;

EID: 0041566669     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.OLQ.0000079521.04451.10     Document Type: Article

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