Confronting HIV/AIDS in a South African village: The impact of health-seeking behaviour

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL. 69, 2007, Pages 175-180

  Golooba Mutebi, Frederick ^a,b   Tollman, Stephen M ^b  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Allopathic; Diagnosis; HIV AIDS; Infection; Information; Medicine; South Africa; Therapy; Traditional; Witchcraft

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY LIVING; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE NEED; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PANDEMIC; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WITCHCRAFT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 34547785112     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: 16511905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14034950701355437     Document Type: Article

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