Enhancing cultural and contextual intervention strategies to reduce HIV/AIDS among African Americans

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1941-1945

  Wyatt, Gail E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGILITY; ANXIETY; BIRTH CONTROL; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONDOM; COUNSELING; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DIET; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; GENDER; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MENTAL HEALTH; NOTE; PARANOIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RACE; RISK REDUCTION; SELF CONCEPT; SEX; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIALIZATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70349920586     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.152181     Document Type: Note

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