Gender, violence and HIV: Women's survival in the streets

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-54

  Epele, María Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Gender inequality; HIV risk; IDU women; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT; SAN FRANCISCO; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SURVIVAL; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0036490099     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015237130328     Document Type: Article

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