HIV and human trafficking-related stigma: Health interventions for trafficked populations

JAMA

Volumn 304, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 344-345

  Vijeyarasa, Ramona ^a   Stein, Richard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO AIDS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STIGMA; TUBERCULOSIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77954733149     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.964     Document Type: Note

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