Increasing HIV diagnoses in Australia among men who have sex with men correlated with the growing number not taking antiretroviral therapy

Sexual Health

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 304-310

  Murray, John M ^a,b   Prestage, Garrett ^b   Grierson, Jeffrey ^c   Middleton, Melanie ^b   McDonald, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

age; AIDS; combined antiretroviral therapy; epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARABLE WORTH; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYPHILIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; DRUG UTILIZATION; GONORRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SYPHILIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860400401     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: 14498987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH10114     Document Type: Article

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