Parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health in rural Tanzania: Implications for young people's sexual health interventions

Reproductive Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Wamoyi, Joyce ^a,b   Fenwick, Angela ^b   Urassa, Mark ^a   Zaba, Basia ^c   Stones, William ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEAR; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MASCULINITY; PANDEMIC; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUAL HEALTH; TANZANIA; TRUST;

EID: 77951988012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-7-6     Document Type: Article

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