Factors influencing the timing of first sexual intercourse among young people in Nyanza, Kenya

International Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 177-188

  Tenkorang, Eric Yeboah ^a   Maticka Tyndale, Eleanor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KENYA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; NYANZA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 61749104476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 01903187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/3417708     Document Type: Article

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