Condom acquisition and preferences within a sample of sexually active gay and bisexual men in the Southern United States

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 861-869

  Rhodes, Scott D ^a   Hergenrather, Kenneth C ^b   Yee, Leland J ^c,h   Wilkin, Aimee M ^a   Clarke, Thomas L ^d   Wooldredge, Rich ^e   Brown, Monica ^f   Davis, A Bernard ^g  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Insight Human Services   (United States)

^e Northwest Care Consortium   (United States)

^f Forsyth County Department of Public Health   (United States)

^g North Carolina Department of Health   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; BISEXUAL MALE; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; BISEXUALITY; CONSUMER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SAFE SEX; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BISEXUALITY; CONDOMS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH CAROLINA; SAFE SEX;

EID: 41449096616     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2007.0027     Document Type: Article

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