Project HOPE: Online social network changes in an HIV prevention randomized controlled trial for African American and Latino men who have sex with men

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1707-1712

  Young, Sean D ^a   Holloway, Ian ^a   Jaganath, Devan ^a   Rice, Eric ^b   Westmoreland, Drew ^a   Coates, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84906087514     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301992     Document Type: Article

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