Women who fall by the roadside: Gender, sexual risk and alcohol in rural Uganda

Addiction

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1277-1284

  Wolff, Brent ^a   Busza, Joanna ^b   Bufumbo, Leonard ^a   Whitworth, Jimmy ^c  

^a UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Gender; Sex behaviour; Social norms; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREEDOM; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INDEPENDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASCULINITY; RURAL AREA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; UGANDA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RISK-TAKING; RURAL HEALTH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; UGANDA; UNSAFE SEX; WOMEN;

EID: 33746898229     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01516.x     Document Type: Article

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