Transactional Sexual Relationships, Sexually Transmitted Infection Risk, and Condom Use among Young Black Women in Peri-Urban Areas of the Western Cape Province of South Africa

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Onoya, Dorina ^a   Reddy, Priscilla ^b   Sifunda, Sibusiso ^b   Lang, Delia ^c   Wingood, Gina M ^c   van den Borne, Bart ^d   Ruiter, Robert A C ^d  

^a HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSACTIONAL SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; URBAN AREA; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860369648     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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