Prevalence of needle sharing, commercial sex behaviors and associated factors in Chinese male and female injecting drug user populations

AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-41

  Gu, Jing ^a   Wang, Renfan ^b   Chen, Hongyao ^b   Lau, Joseph T F ^a   Zhang, Linglin ^c   Hu, Xianyou ^b   Lei, Zhangquan ^b   Li, Zhenglin ^b   Cai, Hua ^b   Wang, Tao ^b   Tsui, Hiyi ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Dazhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

China; Commercial sex work; Injecting drug users; Needle sharing; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHINA; COITUS; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE PATTERN; DRUG DOSE; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; JOB FINDING; LIBIDO; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SAFE SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; CHINA; CONDOMS; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEEDLE SHARING; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57649128412     PISSN: 09540121     EISSN: 13600451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540120802068787     Document Type: Article

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