Sexual and drug use behavior among women who have sex with both women and men: results of a population-based survey.

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Published in Am J Public Health on July 01, 2002

Authors

Susan Scheer1, Ingrid Peterson, Kimberly Page-Shafer, Viva Delgado, Alice Gleghorn, Juan Ruiz, Fred Molitor, William McFarland, Jeffrey Klausner, Young Women's Survey Team

Author Affiliations

1: AIDS Office, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA. susan.scheer@SFDPH.org

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