Heading towards the Safer Highways: An assessment of the Avahan prevention programme among long distance truck drivers in India

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2011, Pages

  Pandey, Arvind ^a   Mishra, Ram ^b   Sahu, Damodar ^a   Benara, Sudhir ^a   Sengupta, Uttpal ^a   Paranjape, Ramesh S ^c   Gautam, Abhishek ^d   Lenka, Satya ^d   Adhikary, Rajatshurva ^d  

^a National Institute of Medical Statistics   (India)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (India)

^c NATIONAL AIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CONDOM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR VEHICLE; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLES; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTITUTION; RISK-TAKING; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 84855303467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-S6-S15     Document Type: Review

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