A venue-based HIV prevalence and behavioural study among men who have sex with men in Antwerp and Ghent, Flanders, Belgium, October 2009 to March 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 28, 2011, Pages

  Vanden Berghe, W ^a   Nostlinger C ^a   Buve A ^a   Beelaert, G ^a   Fransen, K ^a   Laga, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BELGIUM; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG USE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; SEROLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 79960876706     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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