Culture, changing livelihoods, and HIV/AIDS discourse: Reframing the institutionalization of fish-for-sex exchange in the Zambian Kafue Flats

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-83

  Merten, Sonja ^a   Haller, Tobias ^b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEAR; FEMALE; FISH; FISHING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORALITY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SHAME; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STIGMA; ZAMBIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN RELATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EXTRAMARITAL RELATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARRIAGE; RISK-TAKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ZAMBIA;

EID: 34047264594     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691050600965968     Document Type: Article

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