Human immunodeficiency virus risk: Is it possible to dissuade people from having unsafe sex?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 207-215

  Richens, John ^a   Imrie, John ^a   Weiss, Helen ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Human immunodeficiency virus; Risk; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038359141     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00268     Document Type: Article

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