Estimating the total annual direct cost of providing sexually transmitted infection and HIV testing and counseling for menwho have sexwithmen in the United States

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 586-589

  Owusu Edusei, Kwame ^a   Gift, Thomas L ^a   Patton, Monica E ^a   Johnson, David B ^a   Valentine, Jo A ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEPATITIS B; HERPES SIMPLEX; HIV TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; PATIENT COUNSELING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES; COST OF ILLNESS; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MASS SCREENING; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; COST OF ILLNESS; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941771484     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000341     Document Type: Article

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