A community-based study to examine the effect of a youth HIV prevention intervention on young people aged 15-24 in South Africa: Results of the baseline survey

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 971-980

  Pettifor, Audrey E ^a,b   Kleinschmidt, Immo ^c   Levin, Jonathan ^c   Rees, Helen V ^a   MacPhail, Catherine ^a   Madikizela Hlongwa, Lindiwe ^a   Vermaak, Kerry ^d   Napier, Grant ^a   Stevens, Wendy ^a   Padian, Nancy S ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b IL   (United States)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^d Development Research Africa   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Evaluation studies; Human immunodeficiency virus; Sexual behaviour; Sexually transmitted infections; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; GONORRHEA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 26844537995     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01483.x     Document Type: Article

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