Learning from successful interventions: A culturally congruent HIV risk - Reduction intervention for African American men who have sex with men and women

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1008-1012

  Williams, John K ^a   Ramamurthi, Hema C ^b   Manago, Cleo ^c   Harawa, Nina T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c AmASSI Health and Cultural Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPOWERMENT; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSUMER; CONTROL; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SAFE SEX; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UNSAFE SEX;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BISEXUALITY; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PREJUDICE; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL PARTNERS; UNITED STATES; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 67049100361     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.140558     Document Type: Review

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