Impact of five years of peer-mediated interventions on sexual behavior and sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Luchters, Stanley ^a,b   Chersich, Matthew F ^a,b   Rinyiru, Agnes ^a   Barasa, Mary Stella ^c   King'ola, Nzioki ^a   Mandaliya, Kishorchandra ^d   Bosire, Wilkister ^a   Wambugu, Sam ^c   Mwarogo, Peter ^c   Temmerman, Marleen ^b  

^a International Centre for Reproductive Health Kenya   (Kenya)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERVENTION STUDY; KENYA; PATIENT CARE; PEER COUNSELING; PROSTITUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PEER GROUP; PREVALENCE; SAFE SEX; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; PEER GROUP; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 44349145052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-143     Document Type: Article

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