Findings from encontros: A multilevel STI/HIV intervention to increase condom use, reduce STI, and change the social environment among sex workers in Brazil

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 209-216

  Lippman, Sheri A ^a,b   Chinaglia, Magda ^c   Donini, Angela A ^d   Diaz, Juan ^c   Reingold, Arthur ^a   Kerrigan, Deanna L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Population Council   (Brazil)

^d MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHLAMYDIASIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONDOM; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTITUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTITUTION; SAFE SEX; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84857642340     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31823b1937     Document Type: Article

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