Women in the time of aids: Barriers, bargains, and benefits

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 91-106

  Mantell, Joanne E ^a   Stein, Zena A ^c,d   Susser, Ida ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; MICROBICIDE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CIRCUMCISION; CONDOM; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTITUTION; REVIEW; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; CONDOMS, FEMALE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SEXUAL PARTNERS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 43549098259     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2008.20.2.91     Document Type: Review

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