Highly active antiretroviral therapy is associated with decreased incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in a Taiwanese HIV-positive population

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 155-162

  Cheng, Shu Hsing ^a,b   Yang, Chin Hui ^a,c   Hsueh, Yu Mei ^a,d  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAOYUAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIAL URETHRITIS; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIMARY SYPHILIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY SYPHILIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TAIWAN; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CASE MANAGEMENT; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TAIWAN;

EID: 84875184098     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: 15577449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2012.0385     Document Type: Article

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