Clinical presentation and management of alleged sexually assaulted females at Mulago hospital, Kampala, Uganda

African Health Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-54

  Ononge, Samuel ^a   Wandabwa, Julius ^b   Kiondo, Paul ^b   Busingye, Robert ^a  

^a MULAGO HOSPITAL   (Uganda)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRACEPTION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANDATORY REPORTING; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SYPHILIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UGANDA; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COUNSELING; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INJURY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMOXICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX OFFENSES; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; UGANDA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33646021324     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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