Factors associated with awareness and utilisation of a community mobilisation intervention for female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 86, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Blankenship, Kim M ^a   Burroway, Rebekah ^a   Reed, Elizabeth ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTITUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949699387     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2009.038653     Document Type: Article

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