HIV Risk Behaviors, Perceptions, and Testing and Preexposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Awareness/Use in Grindr-Using Men Who Have Sex With Men in Atlanta, Georgia

Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 133-142

  Goedel, William C ^a   Halkitis, Perry N ^a   Greene, Richard E ^c   Hickson, DeMarc A ^b   Duncan, Dustin T ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Unit 100   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gay men's health; HIV; Men who have sex with men; Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP)

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEORGIA; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PROCEDURES; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GEORGIA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959461420     PISSN: 10553290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jana.2015.11.005     Document Type: Article

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