Female sex workers incarcerated in New York City jails: Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and associated risk behaviors

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 280-284

  Parvez, Farah ^a,b   Katyal, Monica ^a   Alper, Howard ^a   Leibowitz, Ruth ^a   Venters, Homer ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONCURRENT SEXUAL PARTNERSHIP; CONDOM USE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROSTITUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEXUAL HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CONDOMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PREVALENCE; PRISONERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK-TAKING; SELF REPORT; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 84878211735     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2012-050977     Document Type: Article

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