HIV infection and patterns of risk among women drug injectors and crack users in low and high sero-prevalence sites.
As AIDS cases among US women continue to increase, a better understanding of women's behavioural risk patterns is needed to inform intervention efforts. Data were from 2,945 women drug injectors and crack users. Statistical analyses compared sociodemographic variables, lifetime behavioural risk patt...
| Publicado en: | AIDS Care Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 65 - 77 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2000
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