Anal sex, vaginal practices, and HIV incidence in female sex workers in Urban Kenya: Implications for the development of intravaginal HIV prevention methods

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1067-1072

  Priddy, Frances H ^a,b   Wakasiaka, Sabina ^c   Hoang, Tina D ^d   Smith, Donna J ^e   Farah, Bashir ^c   Del Rio, Carlos ^f   Ndinya Achola, Jeckoniah ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^d NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^e GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANILINGUS; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONDOM; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; GENITAL ULCER; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYGIENE PRODUCT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; KENYA; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; URBAN AREA; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA RING; VAGINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONDOMS, FEMALE; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KENYA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; URBAN POPULATION; VAGINAL DOUCHING; VAGINITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953855243     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: 19318405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2010.0362     Document Type: Article

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