Primary care of men who have sex with men in the u.S. military in the post-don’t ask, don’t tell era: A review of recent progress, health needs, and challenges

Military Medicine

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2017, Pages e1603-e1611

  Campbell, Wesley R ^a   Jahan, Mojgan ^b   Bavaro, Mary F ^b   Carpenter, Robert J ^c  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Naval Operational Medicine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ETHICS; GONORRHEA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOGENICITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOLDIER; SYPHILIS; TRENDS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GONORRHEA; HEALTH POLICY; HEPATITIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE;

EID: 85014914591     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-16-00255     Document Type: Review

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