Implementing community interventions for HIV prevention: Insights from project ethnography

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 467-478

  Evans, Catrin ^a   Lambert, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community interventions; Ethnography; HIV; Implementation research; India; Sex work

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; ETHNICITY; HEALTH POLICY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PROSTITUTION;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY CARE; ETHNOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; PEER GROUP; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SEX WORKER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PROSTITUTION; SAFE SEX; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

ASIA; CALCUTTA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 36849063035     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.08.030     Document Type: Article

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