Strategies for promoting HIV testing uptake: Willingness to receive couple-based and collective HIV testing among a cross-sectional online sample of men who have sex with men in China

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 469-474

  Wei, Chongyi ^a   Muessig, Kathryn E ^b,c   Bien, Cedric ^c,d   Yang, Ligang ^e   Meng, Roger ^f   Han, Larry ^c,g   Yang, Min ^c,g   Tucker, Joseph D ^c,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT CHINA   (China)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Guangdong Provincial Center for STI Prevention and Control   (China)

^f Guangtong Lingnan MSM Community Support Center   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CONCURRENT SEXUAL PARTNERSHIP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT RISK; POINT OF CARE TESTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERNET; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TESTING; YOUNG ADULT;

CHINA; HIV; HOMOSEXUALITY; SEXUAL HEALTH; TESTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907291725     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051460     Document Type: Article

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