The potential for bridging: HIV status awareness and risky sexual behaviour of injection drug users who have non-injecting permanent partners in Ukraine

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 17, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mazhnaya, Alyona ^a   Andreeva, Tatiana I ^a   Samuels, Steve ^b   DeHovitz, Jack ^c   Salyuk, Tetyana ^d   McNutt, Louise Anne ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV MOHYLA ACADEMY   (Ukraine)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

^d International HIV AIDS Alliance in Ukraine   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

HIV epidemic generalization; HIV testing; IDU; Sexual behaviour; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONDOM USE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS RAPID TEST; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIV RAPID TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFE SEX; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUALITY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UKRAINE; UNPROTECTED SEX; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

HIV EPIDEMIC GENERALIZATION; HIV TESTING; IDU; SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR; UKRAINE;

ADULT; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UKRAINE; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 84896882580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7448/IAS.17.1.18825     Document Type: Article

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