Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 7 , Pages 470-475 , July 2009

High-risk behaviours among juvenile prison inmates in Pakistan

  • A. Altaf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
    • ,
  • N.Z. Janjua

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4R4, Canada. Tel.: +1 604 660 3162; fax: +1 604 660 0197.
    • ,
  • S. Kristensen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • ,
  • N.A. Zaidi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Memorial Hospital, Brown University, USA
    • ,
  • A. Memon

      Affiliations

    • Sindh AIDS Control Programme, Government of Sindh, Karachi, Pakistan
    • ,
  • E.W. Hook III

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • ,
  • S.H. Vermund

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • ,
  • S.A. Shah

      Affiliations

    • Sindh AIDS Control Programme, Government of Sindh, Karachi, Pakistan

Received 17 November 2008 ,Revised 4 May 2009 ,Accepted 2 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.06.001

Public Health
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