The emerging HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men in southeastern Europe

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1351-1358

  Bozicevic, Ivana ^a   Begovac, Josip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Albania; Balkans; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; HIV; late presenters; men who have sex with men; Montenegro; Serbia; Slovenia

Indexed keywords

ALBANIA; ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONDOM; CONFIDENTIALITY; CROATIA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MONTENEGRO (REPUBLIC); PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SERBIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SLOVENIA; STIGMA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EPIDEMICS; EUROPE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; STEREOTYPING; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 78650211748     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eri.10.131     Document Type: Article

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