Working to prevent HIV/STIs among women in the sex industry in a rural town of Hainan, China

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 7, 2006, Pages

  Liao, Su Su ^a   He, Qi Ya ^b   Choi, Kyung Hee ^c   Hudes, Esther S ^c   Liao, Jin Fang ^d   Wang, Xiao Chun ^d   Liu, Min ^a   Pan, Wen Li ^b   Mandel, Jeffrey S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Hainan Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Chengmai County Anti epidemic Station   (China)

Author keywords

Condom promotion; Evaluation; Female sex workers; Outreach; Resource limited settings

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONDOM; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTIVATION; PROSTITUTION; RURAL AREA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ETHNICITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; KNOWLEDGE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POVERTY; PROSTITUTION; RURAL POPULATION; SAFE SEX; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 33746932519     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-006-9143-1     Document Type: Article

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