Ties of dependence: AIDS and transactional sex in rural Malawi

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 147-162

  Swidler, Ann ^a   Watkins, Susan Cotts ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONS; PROSTITUTION; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALAWI; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROSTITUTION; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; MALAWI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34548531721     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: 17284465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2007.00127.x     Document Type: Article

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