"Don't tell him you have HIV unless he's 'the one'": Romantic relationships among adolescents and young adults with perinatal HIV infection

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 746-754

  Fair, Cynthia ^a   Albright, Jamie ^a  

^a ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTIMACY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERINATAL INFECTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870514613     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: 15577449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2012.0290     Document Type: Article

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