Achieving the global goals on HIV among young people most at risk in developing countries: Young sex workers, injecting drug users and men who have sex with men

World Health Organization - Technical Report Series

Volumn , Issue 938, 2006, Pages 287-315

  Hoffmann, Oliver ^a   Boler, Tania ^a   Dick, Bruce ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT HEALTH; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG USE; EVALUATION RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSTITUTION; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTITUTION; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33748564945     PISSN: 05123054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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