Is there a need to include HIV, HBV and HCV viruses in the Saudi premarital screening program on the basis of their prevalence and transmission risk factors?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 989-997

  Alswaidi, F M ^a   O'Brien, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIRUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MASS SCREENING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREMARITAL EXAMINATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SOCIAL CLASS;

SAUDI ARABIA;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 78149279576     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.093302     Document Type: Article

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