HIV incidence rates and risk factors for urban women in Zambia: Preparing for a microbicide clinical trial

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 129-133

  Kapina, Muzala ^a   Reid, Cheri ^a   Roman, Karisse ^b   Cyrus Cameron, Elena ^c   Kwiecien, Antonia ^c   Weiss, Stephen ^d   Vermund, Sten H ^a,e,f  

^a CENTRE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH IN ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONDOM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FOLLOW UP; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY TEST; REAGIN TEST; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SAFE SEX; SCREENING TEST; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; URBAN POPULATION; VAGINITIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ZAMBIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT; ZAMBIA;

EID: 62849111059     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318190191d     Document Type: Article

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