Rates of condom and non-condom-based anal intercourse practices among homosexually active men in Australia: Deliberate HIV risk reduction?

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 489-493

  Mao, Limin ^a   Kippax, Susan C ^b   Holt, Martin ^a   Prestage, Garrett P ^c   Zablotska, Iryna B ^c   De Wit, John B F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK REDUCTION; UNPROTECTED ANAL INTERCOURSE CASUAL; UNPROTECTED ANAL INTERCOURSE REGULAR; UNSAFE SEX; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; CONDOMS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNSAFE SEX; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 80052929050     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050041     Document Type: Article

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