Racial and ethnic disparities in HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis among women

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 116-122

  Steele, C Brooke ^a   Richmond Reese, Valerie ^a   Lomax, Sherry ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEMOPHILIA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERINATAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL STATUS; SYPHILIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHILD; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33645635147     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2006.15.116     Document Type: Article

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