Women's Health Issues
Volume 17, Issue 4 , Pages 210-216 , July 2007

The Association Between History of Violence and HIV Risk: A Cross-Sectional Study of HIV-Negative Incarcerated Women in Connecticut

  • Anita Ravi, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Atlanta, Georgia
    • ,
  • Kim M. Blankenship, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Kim Blankenship, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, 40 Temple Street, Suite 1B, New Haven, CT, 06510.
    • ,
  • Frederick L. Altice, MD

      Affiliations

    • Yale University AIDS Program, New Haven, Connecticut

Received 1 May 2006 ,Revised 10 January 2007 ,Accepted 4 February 2007.

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 Supported by the CDC (U64/CCU 109686, FL Altice, PI). Dr Altice was also supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (K24 DA 017072, F. L. Altice, PI); Blankenship’s work on this project was also supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (P30 MH 62294, M. H. Merson, PI).

PII: S1049-3867(07)00034-5

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.02.009

Women's Health Issues
Volume 17, Issue 4 , Pages 210-216 , July 2007

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