Association of discrimination-related trauma with sexual risk among HIV-positive African American men who have sex with men

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 875-880

  Fields, Errol L ^a   Bogart, Laura M ^a,b   Galvan, Frank H ^c   Wagner, Glenn J ^d   Klein, David J ^a,b   Schuster, Mark A ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Bienestar Human Services   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNSAFE SEX; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; PRISONERS; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNSAFE SEX; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876818468     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300951     Document Type: Article

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