HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in a cohort of women involved in high-risk sexual behavior in Kampala, Uganda

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 316-323

  Vandepitte, Judith ^a   Bukenya, Justine ^a   Weiss, Helen A ^b   Nakubulwa, Susan ^a   Francis, Suzanna C ^b   Hughes, Peter ^a   Hayes, Richard ^b   Grosskurth, Heiner ^a,b  

^a MRC/UVRI   (Uganda)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDIASIS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONDOM; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UGANDA; VAGINITIS; WIDOW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953196535     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3182099545     Document Type: Article

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