Abriendo Puertas: Baseline findings from an integrated intervention to promote prevention, treatment and care among FSW living with HIV in the Dominican Republic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Donastorg, Yeycy ^a   Barrington, Clare ^b   Perez, Martha ^a   Kerrigan, Deanna ^c  

^a Dirección Nacional de Control de Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual y SIDA   (Dominican Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEER GROUP; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT CARE; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VIRAL LOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895824285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088157     Document Type: Article

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