Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/allergy.2.021
Women who have sex with women (WSW) and women who have sex with women and men (WSWM) in the HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns
Obón-Azuara B1,2,*, Gasch-Gallén A2,3, Gutiérrez-Cía I2,4, Tomás-Aznar C2,3
- 1Intensive Care Unit. University Clinic Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain
- 2Independent Interdisciplinary Group of Gender Studies Aragón (GRIIEGA), Zaragoza, Spain
- 3Department of Physiatry and Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
- 4Medical Director, University Clinic Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain
Corresponding Author
Obón-Azuara B, blankaobona@hotmail.com
Received Date: April 09, 2021
Accepted Date: June 21, 2021
Obón Azuara B, Gasch-Gallén A, Gutiérrez-Cía I, Tomás-Aznar C. Women who have sex with women (WSW) and women who have sex with women and men (WSWM) in the HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns. J Allergy Infect Dis 2021; 2(2):39-41.
Copyright: © 2021 Obón Azuara B, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
Diversity, Health equity, Sexually transmitted infections
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