Intimate partner violence among pregnant women in Rwanda

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ntaganira, Joseph ^a   Muula, Adamson S ^b   Masaisa, Florence ^a   Dusabeyezu, Fidens ^a   Siziya, Seter ^c   Rudatsikira, Emmanuel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RWANDA; SEXUAL ABUSE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BATTERED WOMEN; FEMALE; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANT WOMEN; PREVALENCE; RWANDA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 54549091206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-8-17     Document Type: Article

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