Sexual risk behaviour and infection: epidemiological considerations
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Sexual risk behaviour and infection: epidemiological considerations.
R esearchers into sexually transmitted disease (STD) have been trying to measure sexual behaviour for a very long time. Following the emergence of the HIV pandemic in the 1980s and 1990s, the focus on sexual measurement intensified. Researchers attempted to measure sexual behaviour in a wide variety of contexts for various purposes, often without explicit attention to the impact of context and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2004.011866