Prevalence of Consensual Male-Male Sex and Sexual Violence, and Associations with HIV in South Africa: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Dunkle, Kristin L ^a   Jewkes, Rachel K ^b   Murdock, Daniel W ^a   Sikweyiya, Yandisa ^b   Morrell, Robert ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSENSUAL SEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; SEX OFFENSES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879333201     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001472     Document Type: Article

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