Age-gaps in sexual partnerships: Seeing beyond 'sugar daddies'

AIDS

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 861-863

  Ott, Miles Q ^a,b   Bärnighausen, Till ^a,c   Tanser, Frank ^a   Lurie, Mark N ^b   Newell, Marie Louise ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79953733295     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32834344c9     Document Type: Article

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