Informing interventions: The importance of contextual factors in the prediction of sexual risk behaviors among transgender women

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-127

  Sevelius, Jae M ^a   Reznick, Olga Grinstead ^a   Hart, Stacey L ^b   Schwarcz, Sandy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Department of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65649117016     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2009.21.2.113     Document Type: Article

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