Concurrent sexual partnerships and human immunodeficiency virus risk among South African youth

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 459-466

  Steffenson, Annie E ^a   Pettifor, Audrey E ^b   Seage, George R ^c   Rees, Helen V ^d   Cleary, Paul D ^e  

^a Independent Researcher   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOGAMY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957668614     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3182080860     Document Type: Article

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