Impending concentrated HIV epidemic among injecting drug users in Central Bangladesh [3]

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 280-282

  Azim, Tasnim ^a,c   Alam, M Shah ^a   Rahman, Motiur ^a   Sarker, M S ^a   Ahmed, Giasuddin ^a   Khan, M Repon ^a   Rahman, Saifur ^a   Rahman, A S M M ^b   Sack, David A ^a  

^a ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

^b Tech Comm of the Natl AIDS Comm

^c ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; BLOOD SAMPLING; DRUG ABUSE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; REAGIN TEST; SAMPLE SIZE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; VIRUS DETECTION;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; BANGLADESH; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MARITAL STATUS; NEEDLE SHARING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SYPHILIS;

EID: 2342645445     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/095646204773557875     Document Type: Letter

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