HIV heterosexual sexual risk from injecting drug users among HIV-seronegative noninjecting heroin users

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 46, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 208-217

  Neaigus, Alan ^a,b   Miller, Maureen ^a,c   Gyarmathy, V Anna ^a,c   Friedman, Samuel R ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MONITORING CENTRE FOR DRUGS AND DRUG ADDICTION   (Portugal)

Author keywords

heroin users; HIV; HIV seronegative; noninjecting heroin users; sexual risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; RISK; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RISK; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79951570518     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2011.521473     Document Type: Article

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