Vulnerability to HIV/STIs among Rural Women from Migrant Communities in Nepal: A Health and Human Rights Framework

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 142-151

  Smith Estelle, Allison ^a   Gruskin, Sofia ^b,c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Gender based discrimination; Health policies and programmes; HIV AIDS; Human rights; Migration; Nepal; Sexually transmitted infections

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION RISK; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; NEPAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 0344413442     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(03)02292-4     Document Type: Article

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