'Just getting by': A cross-sectional study of male sex workers as a key population for HIV/STIs among men who have sex with men in Peru

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 223-229

  Bayer, Angela M ^a,b   Garvich, Mijail ^b   Diáz, David A ^b   Sánchez, Hugo ^c   García, Patricia J ^b   Coates, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c Epicentro   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CONDOM USE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SYPHILIS; TRANSGENDERISM;

COMMERCIAL SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR; SOCIAL SCIENCE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERU; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SYPHILIS; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 84899628371     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051265     Document Type: Article

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