Sexually transmitted infections and HIV among travellers: A review

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 184-195

  Richens, John ^a,b  

^a Camden Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Condoms; Emergency contraception; HIV; Post exposure prophylaxis; Risk factors; Sexual behaviour; Sexually transmitted infections; Travel

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; LAMIVUDINE; LEVONORGESTREL; LOPINAVIR; NELFINAVIR; NEVIRAPINE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; STAVUDINE; TENOFOVIR; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONDOM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEPATITIS B; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MIGRATION; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SAFE SEX; SEROCONVERSION; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRAVEL; TREATMENT PLANNING; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS RESISTANCE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRAVEL;

EID: 33646422770     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2005.06.010     Document Type: Article

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