Engagement with peer health educators is associated with willingness to use pre-exposure prophylaxis among male sex workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 109-112

  Oldenburg, Catherine E ^a   Biello, Katie B ^a,b   Colby, Donn ^c,d   Closson, Elizabeth F ^b   Nguyen, Thi ^c   Trang, Nguyen N N ^e   Lan, Hang X ^e   Mayer, Kenneth H ^a,b,c   Mimiaga, Matthew J ^a,b,f  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b FENWAY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Center for Applied Research on Men and Health   (Viet Nam)

^e Centre for Promotion of Quality of Life   (Viet Nam)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONDOM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH EDUCATOR; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSTITUTION; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL PRACTICE; VIET NAM;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PEER GROUP; SEX WORKERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VIETNAM;

EID: 84896763047     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: 15577449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2013.0372     Document Type: Article

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