HIV Status Awareness, Partnership Dissolution and HIV Transmission in Generalized Epidemics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Reniers, Georges ^a,b   Armbruster, Benjamin ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONDOM; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIV EDUCATION; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOGAMY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; POPULATION RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAFE SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UGANDA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DIVORCE; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 84871320803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050669     Document Type: Article

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