Filling the Knowledge Gap: Measuring HIV Prevalence and Risk Factors among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Female Sex Workers in Tripoli, Libya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Valadez, Joseph J ^a   Berendes, Sima ^a   Jeffery, Caroline ^a   Thomson, Joanna ^b   Ben Othman, Hussain ^c   Danon, Leon ^b   Turki, Abdullah A ^a   Saffialden, Rabea ^a   Mirzoyan, Lusine ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c National AIDS Programme   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; LUBRICATING AGENT; TRANQUILIZER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONDOM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MIGRATION; MILITARY PHENOMENA; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROSTITUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; STIGMA; VIOLENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; SEX WORKER; YOUNG ADULT;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LIBYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK-TAKING; SEX WORKERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879230487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066701     Document Type: Article

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