Correlates of Group Sex Among a Community-Based Sample of Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) in Washington, DC

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1413-1419

  Phillips, Gregory ^a   Magnus, Manya ^a   Kuo, Irene ^a   Rawls, Anthony ^a   Peterson, James ^a   West Ojo, Tiffany ^b   Jia, Yujiang ^b   Opoku, Jenevieve ^b   Greenberg, Alan E ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b District of Columbia Department of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Group sex; GSE; MSM; UAI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONDOM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES; UNSAFE SEX; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 84877916828     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: 15733254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-013-0527-8     Document Type: Article

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