Homosexual men in Australia: Population, distributionand HIV prevalence

Sexual Health

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-102

  Prestage, Garrett ^a,b   Ferris, Jason ^b   Grierson, Jeffrey ^b   Thorpe, Rachel ^b   Zablotska, Iryna ^c   Imrie, John ^c   Smith, Anthony ^b   Grulich, Andrew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gay men; Homosexuality; Population size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BISEXUAL MALE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BISEXUALITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUEENSLAND; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VICTORIA;

EID: 44649100958     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH07080     Document Type: Article

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