Sexually transmitted disease/HIV risk behaviour among women who have sex with women

AIDS

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2005, Pages

  Pinto, Valdir Monteiro ^a,b,c   Tancredi, Mariza Vono ^b   Neto, Antonio Tancredi ^b   Buchalla, Cássia Maria ^b  

^a MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Epidemiology; HIV; Homosexuality; Lesbians; Sexually transmitted diseases; Women who have sex with women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONDOM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; MYCOSIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINITIS; WART VIRUS;

EID: 27944492383     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000191493.43865.2a     Document Type: Article

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