HIV risk behaviours among injecting drug users in Northeast India following scale-up of a targeted HIV prevention programme

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2011, Pages

  Armstrong, Gregory ^a   Humtsoe, Chumben ^b   Kermode, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Project ORCHID   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONDOM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEEDLE SHARING; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855330948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-S6-S9     Document Type: Review

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