The prevalence and risk behaviours associated with the transmission of blood-borne viruses among ethnic-Vietnamese injecting drug users

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 519-525

  Hellard, Margaret E ^a   Nguyen, Oanh K ^a   Guy, Rebecca J ^a,b   Jardine, Darren ^c   Mijch, Anne ^d   Higgs, Peter G ^a,b  

^a MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c National Reference Laboratory   (Canada)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK REDUCTION; SNOWBALL SAMPLE; TRAVEL; VIET NAM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VICTORIA; VIETNAM;

EID: 33846140818     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.tb00779.x     Document Type: Article

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