Alcohol abuse, sexual risk behaviors, and sexually transmitted infections in women in moshi Urban district, Northern Tanzania

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 102-107

  Ghebremichael, Musie ^a,b,f   Paintsil, Elijah ^c,d   Larsen, Ulla ^e  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Departments of Pediatrics   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AFRICA; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMOSIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; SCREENING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYPHILIS; TANZANIA; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONIASIS; URBAN AREA; URINALYSIS; VIOLENCE; VIRUS INFECTION; ALCOHOLISM; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60749125784     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31818b20e6     Document Type: Article

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