Community-based sexual health care works: A review of the ACT outreach program

Sexual Health

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 201-204

  Sturrock, Christine J ^a   Currie, Marian J ^b   Vally, Hassan ^a   O'Keefe, Elissa J ^c   Primrose, Ruth ^c   Habel, Philip ^d   Schamburg, Kevin ^e   Bowden, Francis J ^b,c  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d ACT Division of General Practice   (Australia)

^e AIDS Action Council of the ACT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health service delivery; Nurse

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCREENING TEST; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROSTITUTION; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; STUDENTS; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 34548324553     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH07003     Document Type: Article

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