Microbicide acceptability: Insights for future directions from providers and policy makers

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 188-202

  Hoffman, Susie ^a,b   Cooper, Diane ^c   Ramjee, Gita ^d   Higgins, Jenny A ^e   Mantell, Joanne E ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Cape Town ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROBICIDE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDEMIC; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SAFETY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPERMATOCIDAL AGENTS; UNITED STATES; VAGINAL CREAMS, FOAMS, AND JELLIES;

EID: 43549106590     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2008.20.2.188     Document Type: Article

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