Legislation requiring monthly testing of sex workers with low rates of sexually transmitted infections restricts access to services for higher-risk individuals

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 540-542

  Samaranayake, A ^a,b,c   Chen, M ^a,b   Hocking, J ^b,d   Bradshaw, C S ^a,e   Cumming, R ^a,b   Fairley, C K ^a,b  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition   (Sri Lanka)

^d Key Centre for Women's Health in Society   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LAW; LESBIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONIASIS;

FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; VICTORIA;

EID: 72449185168     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2009.037069     Document Type: Article

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