Social characteristics, risk behaviours and differences in the prevalence of HIV/sexually transmitted infections between Spanish and inmigrant female sex workers in Catalonia, Spain;Diferencias en las características sociales, conductas de riesgo y prevalencia de infección por el virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana e infecciones de transmisión sexual entre trabajadoras del sexo españolas e inmigrantes en Cataluña

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 385-388

  Folch, Cinta ^a,b,e   Sanclemente, Cristina ^c   Esteve, Anna ^a,b   Martró, Elisa ^b,d   Molinos, Sonia ^d   Casabona, Jordi ^a,b,e  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c Àmbit Prevenció Foundation Ciutat Vella District   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; HIV; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Risk behaviours; Sex workers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPAIN; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK-TAKING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62549130669     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2008.05.019     Document Type: Article

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