Protecting the unprotected: Mixed-method research on drug use, sex work and rights in Pakistan's fight against HIV/AIDS

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 85, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages

  Mayhew, S ^a   Collumbien, M ^a   Qureshi, A ^b   Platt, L ^a   Rafiq, N ^c   Faisel, A ^b   Lalji, N ^a   Hawkes, S ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Quaid e Azam University ^*

^c QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG USE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; INJECTING DRUG USER; INTERVIEW; MALE; OFFENDER; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VERBAL HOSTILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TRANSSEXUALISM; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; HUMANS; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREJUDICE; PROSTITUTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TRANSSEXUALISM; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 65649127783     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2008.033670     Document Type: Article

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