Sexual risk behavior has decreased among men who have sex with men in Los Angeles but remains greater than that among heterosexual men and women

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 312-324

  Brooks, Ronald A ^a,c   Lee, Sung Jae ^a   Newman, Peter A ^b   Leibowitz, Arleen A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONDOM; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL DRINKING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 54049139221     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2008.20.4.312     Document Type: Article

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