Gay men are less likely to use condoms with casual sex partners they know 'well'

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 664-668

  Prestage, Garrett ^a   Jin, Fengyi ^a   Grulich, Andrew ^a   De Wit, John ^b   Zablotska, Iryna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Casual partners; Familiarity; Gay men; HIV; Sexual behaviour; Unprotected anal intercourse

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDOM; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS; UNSAFE SEX; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CONDOMS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 84863649948     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-011-9952-8     Document Type: Article

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