Women and AIDS: An analysis of media misrepresentations

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-73

  Sacks, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Inequity; Media; Women

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MASS MEDIUM; MOTHER; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PROSTITUTION; RESPONSIBILITY; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0030028808     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(95)00079-8     Document Type: Article

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