Male Sex Workers Who Sell Sex to Men Also Engage in Anal Intercourse with Women: Evidence from Mombasa, Kenya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mannava, Priya ^a   Geibel, Scott ^b   King'ola, Nzioki ^c   Temmerman, Marleen ^c,d   Luchters, Stanley ^a,d,e,f  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (Kenya)

^c International Centre for Reproductive Health Kenya   (Kenya)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PROSTITUTION; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871796789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052547     Document Type: Article

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