'Let's talk about sex, Baby...': Conversing with Zimbabwean children about HIV/AIDS

Children's Geographies

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 201-218

  Gwanzura Ottemöller, Fungisai P ^a   Kesby, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Education; Hiv aids; Participatory diagramming; Sexual behaviour; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951566967     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733280500161636     Document Type: Article

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