Power, community mobilization, and condom use practices among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India

AIDS

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2008, Pages

  Blankenship, Kim M ^a   West, Brooke S ^b   Kershaw, Trace S ^c   Biradavolu, Monica R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community mobilization; Condom use; HIV; Sex workers; Structural interventions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONDOM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROSTITUTION; SAFE SEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849093650     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000343769.92949.dd     Document Type: Article

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