'Take your mat and go!': Rural Malawian women's strategies in the HIV/AIDS era

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 479-492

  Schatz, Enid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Gender; HIV AIDS; Malawi

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; DIVORCE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVIEW; MALAWI; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SKILL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPOUSE;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALAWI; NARRATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 26944453922     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691050500151255     Document Type: Article

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