Flashblood: Blood sharing among female injecting drug users in Tanzania

Addiction

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1062-1070

  McCurdy, Sheryl A ^a   Ross, Michael W ^a   Williams, Mark L ^a   Kilonzo, Gad P ^b   Leshabari, Melkizedek T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Africa; HIV AIDS; Risk behavior; Substance use; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TANZANIA; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; NEEDLE SHARING; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TANZANIA; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951979967     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.02908.x     Document Type: Article

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