Willingness of us men who have sex with men (MSM) to participate in couples HIV voluntary counseling and testing (CVCT)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Wagenaar, Bradley H ^a   Christiansen Lindquist, Lauren ^a   Khosropour, Christine ^a   Salazar, Laura F ^b   Benbow, Nanette ^c   Prachand, Nik ^c   Sineath, R Craig ^a   Stephenson, Rob ^a   Sullivan, Patrick S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUPLES VOLUNTARY HIV COUNSELING AND TESTING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERNET; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COUNSELING; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865049604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042953     Document Type: Article

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