Secrecy and risk among MSM in Tbilisi, Georgia

AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 591-597

  Costenbader, Elizabeth C ^a   Otiashvili, David ^b   Meyer, William ^c   Zule, William A ^c   Orr, Alex ^c   Kirtadze, Irma ^c  

^a Behavioral and Biomedical Research Department   (United States)

^b Addiction Research Centre   (Georgia)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern Europe; HIV; MSM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDOM; DRUG ABUSE; EASTERN EUROPE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; PROSTITUTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HOMOSEXUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; UNSAFE SEX; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONDOMS; CULTURE; FOCUS GROUPS; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349766080     PISSN: 09540121     EISSN: 13600451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540120802385587     Document Type: Article

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