Understandings of Reproductive Tract Infections in a peri-urban pueblo joven in Lima, Peru

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hernández, Lisa Scipioni ^a   Winch, Peter J ^b   Parker, Kea ^b   Gilman, Robert H ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ^*

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; OVARY INFLAMMATION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PERU; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOM; URBAN AREA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

EID: 33745460047     PISSN: 14726874     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-6-7     Document Type: Article

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