"Just because It's Out There, People Aren't Going to Use It." HIV Self-Testing among Young, Black MSM, and Transgender Women

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 617-624

  Frye, Victoria ^a,b   Wilton, Leo ^c,d   Hirshfied, Sabina ^e   Chiasson, Mary Ann ^e   Usher, Dashawn ^a   Lucy, Debbie ^a   McCrossin, Jermaine ^a   Greene, Emily ^a,f   Kobin, Beryl ^a  

^a NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^e Public Health Solutions   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF EVALUATION; TRANSGENDER; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLACK PERSON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MASS SCREENING; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEW YORK CITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSGENDER PERSONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946019083     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: 15577449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2015.0100     Document Type: Article

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