HIV/AIDS knowledge, beliefs, and behavior among women of childbearing age in India

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 529-546

  Ananth, Prasanna ^a   Koopman, Cheryl ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CONDOM; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 0346881461     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.15.7.529.24049     Document Type: Article

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