Accessing social networks with high rates of undiagnosed HIV infection: The social networks demonstration project

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1093-1099

  Kimbrough, Lisa W ^a   Fisher, Holly E ^b   Jones, Kenneth T ^b   Johnson, Wayne ^b   Thadiparthi, Sekhar ^b   Dooley, Samuel ^b  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG ABUSE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MOUTH FLORA; PATIENT COUNSELING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SYPHILIS; UNSAFE SEX; WESTERN BLOTTING; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOMOSEXUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PEER GROUP; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEER GROUP; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UNITED STATES; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67049144755     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.139329     Document Type: Article

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