Men who have sex with men's sexual relations with women in Bangladesh

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 159-169

  Khan, Sharful Islam ^a,b   Hudson Rodd, Nancy ^b   Saggers, Sherry ^b   Bhuiya, Abbas ^a  

^a ICDDRB Public Health Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Female relations; HIV AIDS; HIV AIDS prevention; Male to male sex

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CULTURAL FACTOR; EROTISM; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MASCULINITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTH ASIA;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; BISEXUALITY; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 13244283130     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691050412331321258     Document Type: Article

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