Impact of gender and sex work on sexual and injecting risk behaviors and their association with HIV positivity among injecting drug users in an HIV epidemic in togliatti city, Russian Federation

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 605-612

  Platt, Lucy ^a,h   Rhodes, Tim ^a   Lowndes, Catherine M ^b   Madden, Peter ^a   Sarang, Anya ^c   Mikhailova, Larissa ^d,e   Renton, Adrian ^a   Pevzner, Yury ^f   Sullivan, Kathleen ^a   Khutorskoy, Mikhail ^g  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network   (Lithuania)

^d City Narcological Services   (Russian Federation)

^e NGO Parents Against Drugs ^*  (Russian Federation)

^f Togliatti City Administration   (Russian Federation)

^g City Dermatovenerology Services   (Russian Federation)

^h IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK-TAKING; RUSSIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 26444479413     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000175391.13947.f7     Document Type: Article

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