Contraceptive practices, sexual and reproductive health needs of HIV-positive and negative female sex workers in Goa, India

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-64

  Wayal, Sonali ^a,b   Cowan, Frances ^b   Warner, Pamela ^c   Copas, Andrew ^b   Mabey, David ^d   Shahmanesh, Maryam ^a,b  

^a Positive People   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTRACEPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE SEX WORKER; FEMALE WORKER; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONIASIS;

ADULT; CONDOMS; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INDIA; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSTITUTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SEXUAL PARTNERS; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751645256     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2010.043158     Document Type: Article

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