Out of the closet and into public health focus: HIV and STDs in men who have sex with men in middle income and resource-limited countries

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 205-207

  Mayer, Kenneth H ^a   Mimiaga, Matthew J ^b   Safren, Steven A ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOMOPHOBIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INDIA; KENYA; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MENTAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 77953575820     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181d13d3e     Document Type: Editorial

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