Sex risk behaviors of drug users: A dual site study of predictors over time

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 325-337

  Deren, Sherry ^a,c   Strauss, Shiela ^a   Kang, Sung Yeon ^a   Colón, Hector M ^b   Robles, Rafaela R ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PUERTO RICO; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEW YORK; PUERTO RICO; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 54049088553     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2008.20.4.325     Document Type: Article

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