Measuring concurrent partnerships: Back on track

AIDS

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1027-1029

  Caraël, Michel ^a   Kretzschmar, Mirjam ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

concurrency; HIV; sexual behaviour; sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCURRENT SEXUAL PARTNERSHIPS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; MARRIAGE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; VALIDITY;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 84861032056     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283522d6b     Document Type: Note

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