Pushback: The Current Wave of Anti-Homosexuality Laws and Impacts on Health

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1-3

  Beyrer, Chris ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; LAW; LGBT PEOPLE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; BISEXUALITY; CIVIL RIGHTS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOPHOBIA; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY;

BISEXUALITY; CIVIL RIGHTS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOPHOBIA; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84903302430     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001658     Document Type: Article

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