There's no place like home: First-year use of the "I Know" home testing program for chlamydia and gonorrhea

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1376-1380

  Rotblatt, Harlan ^a,b   Montoya, Jorge A ^a   Plant, Aaron ^a   Guerry, Sarah ^a   Kerndt, Peter R ^a  

^a Sexually Transmitted Disease Program   (United States)

^b Los Angeles County Department of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MASS SCREENING; SELF CARE;

EID: 84880162209     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301010     Document Type: Article

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