Timing Is Everything: International Variations in Historical Sexual Partnership Concurrency and HIV Prevalence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Morris, Martina ^a   Epstein, Helen ^b   Wawer, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COITUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THAILAND; TREND STUDY; UGANDA; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; THAILAND; TIME FACTORS; UGANDA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649692666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014092     Document Type: Article

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