"My mother told me i must not cook anymore" - Food, culture, and the context of HIV- and aids-related stigma in three communities in South Africa

International Quarterly of Community Health Education

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 201-213

  Okoror, T A ^a,e   Airhihenbuwa, C O ^b   Zungu, M ^c   Makofani, D ^d   Brown, D C ^a   Iwelunmor, J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AFRICA;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOOD; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 57849152148     PISSN: 0272684X     EISSN: 15413519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/IQ.28.3.c     Document Type: Article

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