Gender and the Effects of an Economic Empowerment Program on Attitudes Toward Sexual Risk-Taking Among AIDS-Orphaned Adolescent Youth in Uganda

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 372-378

  Ssewamala, Fred M ^a   Ismayilova, Leyla ^a   McKay, Mary ^b   Sperber, Elizabeth ^a   Bannon Jr , William ^b   Alicea, Stacey ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Economic empowerment intervention; Gender; Microfinance; Orphan; Sexual risk taking; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; AIDS PATIENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMPOWERMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; UGANDA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD, ORPHANED; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY; RISK-TAKING; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; UGANDA;

EID: 77949487517     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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