Sexual and drug use behaviors associated with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in the Mexico-US border region

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-220

  Ulibarri, Monica D ^a   Strathdee, Steffanie A ^a   Patterson, Thomas L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Female sex workers; HIV STIs; Mexico US border

Indexed keywords

CHILD ABUSE; CONDOM; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG ABUSE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MEXICO; MORBIDITY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY; UNITED STATES; UNSAFE SEX;

CALIFORNIA; CONDOMS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEXICO; PROSTITUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TEXAS; UNSAFE SEX; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 77952241882     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e32833864d5     Document Type: Review

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