'Even if you're positive, you still have rights because you are a person': Human rights and the reproductive choice of HIV-positive persons

Developing World Bioethics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-22

  London, Leslie ^b   Orner, Phyllis J ^a   Myer, Landon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Developing world; Gender; HIV AIDS; Informed consent; Reproduction; Rights

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MANDATORY TESTING; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; SOUTH AFRICA; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MANDATORY TESTING; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; SOUTH AFRICA; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 40249108625     PISSN: 14718731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2007.00223.x     Document Type: Article

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