Sex, drugs, and the spread of HIV/AIDS in Belle Glade, Florida

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-93

  Mccoy, Clyde B ^a   Metsch, Lisa R ^a   Inciardi, James A ^b   Anwyl, Robert S ^a   Wingerd, Judith ^a   Bletzer, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack cocaine; Ethnography; Heterosexual transmission; HIV 1

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADDICTION; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; CRACK COCAINE; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0030096806     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1996.10.1.02a00090     Document Type: Article

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