A social ecology of rectal microbicide acceptability among young men who have sex with men and transgender women in Thailand

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 16, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Newman, Peter A ^a   Roungprakhon, Surachet ^b   Tepjan, Suchon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b RAJAMANGALA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY PHRA NAKHON   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Acceptability of healthcare; Gay men; HIV prevention; Qualitative research; Rectal microbicide; Social ecological model; Thailand; Transgender women

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT; MICROBICIDE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BISEXUAL MALE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; CONDOM USE; DRUG COST; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG PACKAGING; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; ODOR; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE; SOCIAL STIGMA; SUPPOSITORY; THAILAND; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCEPTABILITY OF HEALTHCARE; GAY MEN; HIV PREVENTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECTAL MICROBICIDE; SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL MODEL; THAILAND; TRANSGENDER WOMEN;

ADMINISTRATION, RECTAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHEMOPREVENTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; THAILAND; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890124650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7448/IAS.16.1.18476     Document Type: Article

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