HIV prevalence and related risk behaviours among female partners of male injecting drugs users in Iran: Results of a bio-behavioural survey, 2010

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 89, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2013, Pages

  Alipour, Abbas ^a   Haghdoost, Ali Akbar ^b   Sajadi, Leily ^c   Zolala, Farzaneh ^c  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS;

AIDS; EPIDEMIOLOGY (GENERAL); HEPATITIS C; INJECTING DRUG USE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CONDOMS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK-TAKING; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84891873973     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051201     Document Type: Article

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