HIV prevalence and risk factors in women of Accra, Ghana: Results from The Women's Health Study of Accra

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-66

  Duda, Rosemary B ^a   Darko, Rudolph ^b   Adanu, Richard M K ^b   Seffah, Joseph ^b   Anarfi, John K ^b   Gautam, Shiva ^a   Hill, Allan G ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILL; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MOUTH LESION; PREGNANCY; RELIGION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPUTUM; SURGERY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 24644457125     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2005.73.63     Document Type: Article

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