HIV/AIDS and Minority Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Meta-Ethnographic Synthesis of Qualitative Research

Health Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 182-192

  Dillon, Patrick J ^a   Basu, Ambar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MINORITY GROUP; PREJUDICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PREJUDICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84890128060     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2012.732911     Document Type: Article

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