Why are sex workers who use substances at risk for HIV?

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9964, 2015, Pages 211-212

  Rusakova, Maia ^a   Rakhmetova, Aliya ^b   Strathdee, Steffanie A ^c  

^a NGO Stellit   (Russian Federation)

^b Sex Workers' Rights Advocacy Network   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG ABUSE; DRUG USE; HARM REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; NOTE; OPIATE SUBSTITUTION TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SUBSTANCE USE; SYRINGE SHARING; UNPROTECTED SEX; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSMISSION;

FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEX WORKERS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84921416367     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61042-4     Document Type: Note

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