Design and results of the USA-Mexico Border Human Papillomavirus (HPV), Cervical Dysplasia, and Chlamydia trachomatis Study Diseño y resultados del estudio sobre los papilomavirus humanos (PVH), la displasia cervical y Chlamydia trachomatis en la frontera de Estados Unidos y México

• Main Authors: Anna R. Giuliano, Catalina Denman, Jill Guernsey de Zapien, Jose Luis Navarro Henze, Luis Ortega, Bogomil Djambazov, Elena Mendez Brown de Galaz, Kenneth Hatch
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2001
• Subjects: Human papillomavirus; cervical cancer; Chlamydia trachomatis; United States of America; Mexico; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Eia
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/16ef0079b42a4b93ae5aefb386677831

Objective. Mexico has one of the highest mortality rates of invasive cervical cancer in the world. This is particularly true for the states in northern Mexico that border on the United States of America. In addition, Hispanics in the United States have higher rates than do non-Hispanics in the count...