Age at first anal sex and HIV/STI vulnerability among gay men in Australia

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 252-257

  Lyons, Anthony ^a   Pitts, Marian ^a   Grierson, Jeffrey ^a   Smith, Anthony ^a   McNally, Stephen ^a   Couch, Murray ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHLAMYDIA; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; GENITAL HERPES; GONORRHEA; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PHTHIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; THRUSH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862777326     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050253     Document Type: Article

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