HIV risk behaviors among Asian drug users in San Francisco

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 126-140

  Nemoto, Tooru ^a,b   Aoki, Bart ^a   Huang, Karen ^a   Morris, Anne ^a   Le, Mai Nhung ^a   Nguyen, Hung ^a   Ching, Alison ^a   Wong, Wynnie ^a  

^a Asian American Recovery Services   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROSTITUTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SAN FRANCISCO; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0034031302     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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