Validity of coital diaries in a feasibility study for the microbicides development programme trial among women at high risk of HIV/AIDS in Mwanza, Tanzania

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 490-496

  Allen, Caroline F ^a,b   Lees, Shelley S ^c,e   Desmond, Nicola A ^b,c   Der, Geoff ^b   Chiduo, Betty ^c   Hambleton, Ian ^c,e   Knight, Louise ^c,e   Vallely, Andrew ^d,e   Ross, David A ^e   Hayes, Richard J ^e  

^a Caribbean Health Research Council   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c National Institute for Medical Research Mwanza Centre   (Tanzania)

^d African Medical and Research Foundation

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROBICIDE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; COITUS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TANZANIA;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; COITUS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TANZANIA;

EID: 35748964134     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2007.024810     Document Type: Article

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