An early warning sign: sexually transmissible infections among young African American women and the need for preemptive, combination HIV prevention
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An early warning sign: sexually transmissible infections among young African American women and the need for preemptive, combination HIV prevention.
In the USA, an estimated one-in-two adolescent African American women have a sexually transmissible infection (STI). In addition, African American women have the second highest rates of HIV infection of any race/ethnic and gender group, and 13–29-year-old women have the highest proportion of new HIV infections compared with all other age groups. These findings represent a ‘syndemic’ for young A...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexual Health
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1448-5028
DOI: 10.1071/sh09084