Vulnerability to HIV infection among sex worker and non-sex worker female injecting drug users in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Evidence from the baseline survey of a cohort study

Harm Reduction Journal

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Azim, Tasnim ^a   Chowdhury, Ezazul I ^a   Reza, Masud ^a   Ahmed, Munir ^b   Uddin, Mohammed T ^b   Khan, Repon ^a   Ahmed, Giasuddin ^a   Rahman, Motiur ^a   Khandakar, Irona ^a   Khan, Sharful I ^a   Sack, David A ^a   Strathdee, Steffanie A ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b CARE   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HARM REDUCTION; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYPHILIS; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33845669428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7517-3-33     Document Type: Article

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