Treating Asymptomatic Sexually Transmitted Diseases at Anonymous HIV Counseling and Testing Sites

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 874-875

  Dilley, James W ^a   Loeb, Lisa ^a   Casey, Shannon ^a   Adler, Barbara ^a   Rinaldi, Joanna ^a   Klausner, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS; GONORRHEA; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHARYNX DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCREENING TEST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANONYMOUS TESTING; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SAN FRANCISCO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 0345599017     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.OLQ.0000091137.49974.79     Document Type: Short Survey

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