Behavioural intervention works to reduce risky behaviour
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
In an effort to curb the rising rates of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) along the Mexico-US border, a binational team of researchers led by the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that brief but personalised behavioural counselling significantly reduced rates and improved condom use among female sex workers in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
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