Study of knowledge, perception and attitude of adolescent girls towards STIs/HIV, safer sex and sex education: (A cross sectional survey of urban adolescent school girls in South Delhi, India)

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  McManus, Alexandra ^a   Dhar, Lipi ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ACCURACY; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AIDS; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; COMPREHENSION; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; KNOWLEDGE; MARRIAGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STUDENT ATTITUDE; SYMPTOM; URBAN POPULATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 48549101013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-8-12     Document Type: Article

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