Sex position, marital status, and HIV risk among indian men who have sex with men: Clues to optimizing prevention approaches

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 725-734

  Hemmige, Vagish ^a   Snyder, Hannah ^b   Liao, Chuanhong ^a   Mayer, Kenneth ^c   Lakshmi, Vemu ^d   Gandham, Sabitha R ^e   Orunganti, Ganesh ^e   Schneider, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NIZAM'S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^e SHARE INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MARRIAGE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX POSITION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SINGLE MAN;

ADULT; ANIMALS; COITUS; EXTRAMARITAL RELATIONS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455198661     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: 15577449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2011.0079     Document Type: Article

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