Prevalence over time and risk factors for sexually transmissible infections among newly-arrived female sex workers in Timika, Indonesia

Sexual Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-64

  Silitonga, Nurlan ^a,b   Davies, Stephen C ^c   Kaldor, John ^d   Wignall, Stephen ^a   Okoseray, Maurist ^e  

^a PT Freeport Public Health and Malaria Control Program   (Indonesia)

^b HIV Cooperation Program for Indonesia   (Indonesia)

^c ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e RSU Dok 11 Jayapura ^*  (Indonesia)

Author keywords

chlamydia; gonorrhoea; HIV; Papua

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; FEMALE; FEMALE SEX WORKER; FEMALE WORKER; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDONESIA; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMATOSIS; TRICHOMONIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INDONESIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; UNSAFE SEX; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251636189     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH10038     Document Type: Article

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