Public health responses to the HIV epidemic among black men who have sex with men: A qualitative study of US Health Departments and Communities

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1013-1022

  Wilson, Patrick A ^a   Moore, Terrance E ^b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL AIDS DIRECTORS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STIGMA; UNITED STATES; COMMUNITY CARE; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CENTER; HOMOSEXUALITY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; HEALTH FACILITY ADMINISTRATORS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREJUDICE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67049110381     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.140681     Document Type: Article

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