Gender and sexuality: Emerging perspectives from the heterosexual epidemic in South Africa and implications for HIV risk and prevention

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Jewkes, Rachel ^a   Morrell, Robert ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FEMININITY; GENDER IDENTITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MASCULINITY; NOTE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; RAPE; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOUTH AFRICA; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77953392554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2652-13-6     Document Type: Note

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