Are HIV/AIDS prevention interventions for heterosexually active men in the United States gender-specific?

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 981-984

  Dworkin, Shari L ^a,b   Fullilove, Robert E ^c   Peacock, Dean ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d Sonke Gender Justice   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MASCULINITY; NOTE; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUALITY;

FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67049119273     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.149625     Document Type: Note

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