Umbanda healers as effective AIDS educators: Case-control study in Brazilian urban slums (favelas)

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 60-66

  Nations, Marilyn K ^a,b,c   de Souza, Maria Auxiliadora ^b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c Inst Conceitos Culturais and Med   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; AMERICAS; ATTITUDE; BARRIER METHODS; BEHAVIOR; BRAZIL; CASE CONTROL STUDIES; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EDUCATION; FAMILY PLANNING; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; HIV INFECTIONS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; KNOWLEDGE; LATIN AMERICA; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MEDICINE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; POPULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SLUMS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STUDIES; URBAN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBANIZATION; VIRAL DISEASES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY AREAS; URBAN POPULATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0030741147     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00494755970270S118     Document Type: Article

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