Do condoms cause rape and mayhem? the long-term effects of condoms in New South Wales' prisons

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 219-222

  Yap, Lorraine ^a   Butler, Tony ^b   Richters, Juliet ^a   Kirkwood, Kristie ^b   Grant, Luke ^c   Saxby, Max ^c   Ropp, Frederick ^c   Donovan, Basil ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Justice Health Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice   (Australia)

^c New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONDOM; DRUG TRAFFIC; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; RAPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; WEAPON;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PRISONERS; PRISONS; RAPE; RUBBER DAMS; SEX OFFENSES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 34347237295     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2006.022996     Document Type: Article

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