"They have opened our mouths": Increasing women's skills and motivation for sexual communication with young people in rural South Africa

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 504-518

  Phetla, Godfrey ^a   Busza, Joanna ^b   Hargreaves, James R ^b   Pronyk, Paul M ^b   Kim, Julia C ^b   Morison, Linda A ^b   Watts, Charlotte ^b   Porter, John D H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MOTIVATION; PARTNER VIOLENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL AREA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SKILL; SOUTH AFRICA; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DATA COLLECTION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTIVATION; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 58849112272     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2008.20.6.504     Document Type: Article

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