Acceptability of self-conducted home-based HIV testing among men who have sex with men in Brazil: Data from an on-line survey;Aceitabilidade da autotestagem domiciliar para o HIV entre homens que fazem sexo com homens no Brasil: Dados de uma enquete na Internet

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 724-734

  Lippman, Sheri A ^a   Périssé, André R S ^b   Veloso, Valdiléa G ^c   Sullivan, Patrick S ^d   Buchbinder, Susan ^e   Sineath, R Craig ^d   Grinsztejn, Beatriz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV; Male homosexuality; Serologic tests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BRAZIL; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84901945612     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0102-311X00008913     Document Type: Article

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