Five-year monitoring of a gay-friendly voluntary counselling and testing facility in Switzerland: Who got tested and why?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gumy, Cédric ^a   Jeannin, André ^a   Balthasar, Hugues ^b   Huissoud, Thérèse ^a   Jobin, Vincent ^c   Häusermann, Michael ^c   Crevoisier, Hubert ^c   Sudre, Philippe ^d   Dubois Arber, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Aids Hilfe Schweiz   (Switzerland)

^c Dialogai   (Switzerland)

^d Department of Regional Affairs Economy and Health ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anonymous HIV counselling and testing; Gay friendly facility; Homosexuality; Monitoring; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84861950014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-422     Document Type: Article

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