Preventing HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDUs) and from IDUs to noninjecting sexual partners in Sichuan, China

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 583-585

  Des Jarlais, Don C ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHINA; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROSTITUTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CHINA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 34547624829     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3180646412     Document Type: Editorial

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