Female Genital Cutting and HIV Transmission: Is There an Association?

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 45-50

  Diouf, Khady ^a   Nour, Nawal ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutting; Female genitalia; HIV susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTERY INJURY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHRONIC PAIN; DYSPAREUNIA; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FISTULA; GENITAL INJURY; GENITAL ULCER; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LACERATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PENIS INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALITY; SYPHILIS; TISSUE INJURY; URETHRA INJURY; URETHRA STENOSIS; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINE RETENTION; VAGINITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84873475617     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aji.12028     Document Type: Review

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