Enhancing benefits or increasing harms: Community responses for HIV among men who have sex with men, transgender women, female sex workers, and people who inject drugs

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL.3, 2014, Pages

  Baral, Stefan ^a   Holland, Claire E ^a   Shannon, Kate ^a   Logie, Carmen ^a   Semugoma, Paul ^a   Sithole, Bhekie ^a   Papworth, Erin ^a   Drame, Fatou ^a   Beyrer, Chris ^a  

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

Author keywords

drug use; epidemiology; HIV; men who have sex with men; sex work; transgender

Indexed keywords

ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CONDOM USE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIV TEST; HOMOPHOBIA; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTOR; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL PRACTICE; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STIGMA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSGENDERISM; UNPROTECTED SEX; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

FEMALE; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTITUTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS;

EID: 84904122251     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000233     Document Type: Article

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