Declining HIV incidence among patients attending sexually transmitted infection clinics in Pune, India

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 564-569

  Mehendale, Sanjay M ^a   Gupte, Nikhil ^b   Paranjape, Ramesh S ^a   Brahme, Radhika G ^a   Kohli, Rewa ^a   Joglekar, Neelam ^a   Godbole, Sheela V ^a   Joshi, Smita N ^a   Ghate, Manisha V ^a   Sahay, Seema ^a   Kumar, B Kishore ^a   Gangakhedkar, Raman R ^a   Risbud, Arun R ^a   Brookmeyer, Ron S ^c   Bollinger, Robert C ^c  

^a NATIONAL AIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b EDS   (India)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High risk groups; HIV; Incidence; Patients with sexually transmitted infections; Risk factors; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HIV-2; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTITUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SAFE SEX;

EID: 34548063113     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e3180d0a6ba     Document Type: Article

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