Editorial: The need to focus on sex workers in generalized HIV epidemic settings

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 324-325

  Pettifor, Audrey ^a   Rosenberg, Nora ^a   Behets, Frieda ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDIA; CONDOM; EDITORIAL; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOTE; STATISTICS;

FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; SEX WORKERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 79953209371     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31820a8b56     Document Type: Editorial

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