HIV/AIDS and cultural practices in western Kenya: The impact of sexual cleansing rituals on sexual behaviours

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 587-599

  Ayikukwei, Rose ^a   Ngare, Duncan ^a   Sidle, John ^b   Ayuku, David ^a   Baliddawa, Joyce ^a   Greene, James ^b  

^a MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV AIDS; Kenya; Sex cleansers; Sexual rituals; Widows

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONDOM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RITUAL; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BELIEF; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; KENYA; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTUARY PRACTICE; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION; UNSAFE SEX; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 48249110296     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691050802012601     Document Type: Article

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