Clients of sex workers in Switzerland: It makes sense to counsel and propose rapid test for HIV on the street, a preliminary report

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Diserens, Esther Amélie ^a,b   Bodenmann, Patrick ^a   N'Garambe, Chantal ^a   Ansermet Pagot, Anne ^b   Vannotti, Marco ^a   Masserey, Eric ^c   Cavassini, Matthias ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Association Fleur de Pavé   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Public Health ^*  (Switzerland)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AIDS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLIENT OF SEX WORKERS; COUNSELING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PROSTITUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SWITZERLAND; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; STATISTICS;

HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSTITUTION; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77952307588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-74     Document Type: Article

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