Poverty, folate deficiency, human immunodeficiency virus and ulcerated vulval sexually transmitted diseases in Jamaica

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 137-140

  Fletcher, H ^a,b   Figueroa, P ^a,b   Brathwaite, A ^a,b   Hylton Kong, T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b Ministry of Health   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

HIV; Poverty; STD

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; CONDOM; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENITAL ULCER; GRANULOMA INGUINALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JAMAICA; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POVERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; ULCUS MOLLE; VAGINITIS; VULVA DISEASE; WART VIRUS;

EID: 84857857250     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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