HIV and sexually transmitted infections at the borderlands: Situational analysis of sexual health in the Brazilian Amazon

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 294-300

  Benzaken, Adele ^a,b   Sabidó, Meritxell ^c,d   Galban, Enrique ^e   Rodrigues Dutra, Daniel Lúcio ^a   Leturiondo, André Luiz ^a   Mayaud, Philippe ^f  

^a Fundacao Alfredo da Matta   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO LEÔNIDAS E MARIA DEANE   (Brazil)

^c Research and Public Health Department   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e Facultad de Medicina Calixto Garcia   (Cuba)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; DISEASE DURATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PERU; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS;

ADULT; BRAZIL; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNSAFE SEX; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861671914     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050309     Document Type: Article

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