Gender Differences in Sexual and Injection Risk Behavior among Active Young Injection Drug Users in San Francisco (the UFO Study)

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 137-146

  Evans, Jennifer L ^a,b   Hahn, Judith A ^a   Page Shafer, Kimberly ^a   Lum, Paula J ^a   Stein, Ellen S ^a   Davidson, Peter J ^a   Moss, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Gender differences; Homeless; Injection drug use; Youth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HOMELESSNESS; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG ABUSE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDLE SHARING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SAN FRANCISCO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 0037636644     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jurban/jtg137     Document Type: Article

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