Black women in the united states decrease their number of recent sex partners: Temporal trends from the national survey of family growth

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-3

  Leichliter, Jami S ^a,b   Aral, Sevgi O ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; NEGRO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59049106149     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181845b84     Document Type: Article

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