Sexual behavior and sexually transmitted infections in men living in rural Madagascar: Implications for HIV transmission

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 262-265

  Leutscher, Peter D C ^a,b   Behets, Frieda ^c   Rousset, Dominique ^a   Ramarokoto, Charles Emile ^a   Siddiqi, Omar ^d   Ravaoalimalala, Elisabeth V ^e   Christensen, Niels O ^b   Migliani, René ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

^b DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^e Ministry of Health   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONDOM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MADAGASCAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SAFE SEX; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; URETHRITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; MADAGASCAR; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0242349290     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-200303000-00017     Document Type: Article

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