Bisexual behavior and infection with HIV and syphilis among men who have sex with men along the east coast of China

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 683-691

  Liao, Meizhen ^a   Kang, Dianming ^a   Jiang, Baofa ^b   Tao, Xiaorun ^a   Qian, Yueshen ^a   Wang, Tongzhan ^a   Bi, Zhenqiang ^a   Xiao, Yan ^c   Li, Chunmei ^c   Wu, Pingsheng ^d   Vermund, Sten H ^d   Jia, Yujiang ^d  

^a Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINA; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYPHILIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BISEXUALITY; CHILD; CHINA; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SYPHILIS; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055062721     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: 15577449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2010.0371     Document Type: Article

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