Multilevel social influences on female condom use and adoption among women in the urban United States

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 297-309

  Weeks, Margaret R ^a   Li, Jianghong ^a   Coman, Emil ^a   Abbott, Maryann ^a   Sylla, Laurie ^b   Corbett, Michelle ^c   Dickson Gomez, Julia ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; PEER GROUP; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONDOMS, FEMALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNSAFE SEX; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77952973814     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2009.0312     Document Type: Article

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