Intravaginal practices, bacterial vaginosis, and HIV infection in women: Individual participant data meta-analysis

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Low, Nicola ^a   Chersich, Matthew F ^b,c   Schmidlin, Kurt ^a   Egger, Matthias ^a   Francis, Suzanna C ^d   van de Wijgert, Janneke H H M ^e   Hayes, Richard J ^d   Baeten, Jared M ^f   Brown, Joelle ^d,g   Delany Moretlwe, Sinead ^b   Kaul, Rupert ^h   McGrath, Nuala ^d,i   Morrison, Charles ^j   Myer, Landon ^k,l   Temmerman, Marleen ^c   van der Straten, Ariane ^m   Watson Jones, Deborah ^d   Zwahlen, Marcel ^a   Hilber, Adriane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^j FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^l Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^m RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOAP;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCT; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVAGINAL PRACTICE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PERSONAL HYGIENE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; META ANALYSIS; REVIEW; VAGINAL LAVAGE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; VAGINAL DOUCHING; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 79952264089     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000416     Document Type: Article

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