If you provide the test, they will take it: Factors associated with HIV/STI testing in a Representative sample of homeless youth in Los Angeles

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 350-362

  Ober, Allison J ^a   Martino, Steven C ^a   Ewing, Brett ^a   Tucker, Joan S ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HIV TEST; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMELESS YOUTH; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RISK; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864393221     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2012.24.4.350     Document Type: Article

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