HIV risk behaviors among homeless injection drug users of different ethnicities

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 187-194

  Song, Jin T ^a,c   Tesselaar, Helen ^a   Stark, Michael ^b   Duvall, Mary Kay ^b   Gao, David ^b   Fleming, David ^a  

^a Office of Disease Prevention and Epidemiology   (United States)

^b MULTNOMAH COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^c OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug users; Ethnicity; Homeless; Human immunodeficiency virus; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032748435     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025448326028     Document Type: Article

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