Do differences in age between sexual partners affect sexual risk behaviour among australian gay and bisexual men?

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 653-658

  Prestage, Garrett ^a,b   Jin, Fengyi ^a   Bavinton, Benjamin ^a   Scott, Stephen Andrew ^c   Hurley, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ACON   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BISEXUAL MALE; CASUAL SEX; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONDOM; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; UNPROTECTED SEX; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BISEXUALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AUSTRALIA; BISEXUALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 84891888378     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2012-050947     Document Type: Article

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