Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 4 , Pages 279-288 , July 2009

HIV Testing Among Sexually Experienced Asian and Pacific Islander Young Women: Association With Routine Gynecologic Care

  • Hyeouk Chris Hahm, PhD, LCSW

      Affiliations

    • Boston University School of Social Work, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Hyeouk Chris Hahm, PhD, LCSW, Boston University School of Social Work, 264 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215.
    • ,
  • In Han Song, PhD, LCSW

      Affiliations

    • Yonsei University, Graduate School of Social Welfare, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Al Ozonoff, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Jessica C. Sassani

      Affiliations

    • Boston University College of Arts & Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts

Received 31 October 2008 ,Revised 23 April 2009 ,Accepted 4 May 2009.

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 Funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grant (NIAAA, PA 05-015), Diversity Supplement. This research uses data from Add Health, a program project designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris, and funded by a grant P01-HD31921 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 17 other agencies. Special acknowledgement is due to Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design.

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doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2009.05.001

Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 4 , Pages 279-288 , July 2009

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