Navigating the AIDS epidemic in rural Malawi

Population and Development Review

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 673-705

  Watkins, Susan Cotts ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HEALTH RISK; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 12244280862     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2004.00037.x     Document Type: Article

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