Riddle of the sphinx revisited: The role of stds in hiv prevention

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 365-367

  Barnabas, Ruanne V ^a   Wasserheit, Judith N ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR;

AFRICA; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; FAMILY PLANNING; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; PANDEMIC; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; POPULATION RISK; RISK REDUCTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TANZANIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOMONIASIS; UGANDA; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS; ZIMBABWE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 67049100317     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181a4f6ac     Document Type: Editorial

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