Condom use with steady and casual partners in inner city African-American communities

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 238-242

  Chatterjee, Nilesh ^a,b,c,d   Hosain, G M M ^d   Williams, S ^e  

^a Kalyani Media Group ^*  (India)

^b Kalyani Media Group   (India)

^c UTSPH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNSAFE SEX; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 33745144986     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2005.018259     Document Type: Article

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