Society, sex, and STIs: Human behavior and the evolution of sexually transmitted diseases and their agents

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1230, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-73

  Nahmias, Susa Beckman ^a   Nahmias, Daniella ^b  

^a Georgia Parents for Responsible Health Education   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Determinants; Economic inequality; Epidemiology; Evolution; Gender inequality; Globalization; Interventions; Sexual behavior; STI

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MICROBICIDE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SILDENAFIL; TENOFOVIR; WART VIRUS VACCINE;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ETHICS; EVOLUTION; GONORRHEA; GROUPS BY AGE; HEPATITIS B; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MIGRATION; MORALITY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIETY; URBANIZATION; VACCINATION;

EID: 79961204674     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06079.x     Document Type: Article

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