HIV/AIDS acquisition and transmission in Bangladesh: Turning to the concentrated epidemic

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-119

  Mondal, Md Nazrul Islam ^a   Takaku, Hiroshi ^a   Ohkusa, Yasushi ^b   Sugawara, Tamie ^b   Okabe, Nobuhiko ^b  

^a CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSSEXUALISM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66849131277     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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