HIV, HSV-2 and syphilis among married couples in India: Patterns of discordance and concordance

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 516-520

  Arora, Paul ^a   Nagelkerke, Nico ^b,c   Sgaier, Sema K ^a,d   Kumar, Rajesh ^e   Dhingra, Neeraj ^f   Jha, Prabhat ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^f GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYPHILIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXTRAMARITAL RELATIONS; FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SYPHILIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052943616     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050203     Document Type: Article

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