HIV and African Americans in the Southern United States: Sexual networks and social context

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 7 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Adimora, Adaora A ^a,b   Schoenbach, Victor J ^b   Doherty, Irene A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUCASIAN; CHLAMYDIASIS; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACISM; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SEX RATIO; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745666264     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000228298.07826.68     Document Type: Review

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