Reductions in HIV/STI Incidence and Sharing of Injection Equipment among Female Sex Workers Who Inject Drugs: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Strathdee, Steffanie A ^a   Abramovitz, Daniela ^a   Lozada, Remedios ^b   Martinez, Gustavo ^c   Rangel, Maria Gudelia ^d   Vera, Alicia ^a   Staines, Hugo ^e   Magis Rodriguez, Carlos ^f   Patterson, Thomas L ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Instituto de Servicios de Salud Publica   (Mexico)

^c Federacion Mexicana Asociaciones P   (Mexico)

^d EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA NORTE   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CIUDAD JUÁREZ   (Mexico)

^f Concorcio de Investigacion sobre HIV/AIDS and TB ^*  (Mexico)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA RAPID TEST; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; GONORRHEA RAPID TEST; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIV RAPID TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROSTITUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAPID TEST; REAGIN TEST; RISK REDUCTION; SAFE SEX; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; SYRINGE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS RAPID TEST; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNPROTECTED SEX; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MEXICO; NEEDLE SHARING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX WORKERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

CHLAMYDIA; TRICHOMONAS;

EID: 84878987013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065812     Document Type: Article

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