Rethinking HIV/AIDS disclosure among women within the context of motherhood in South Africa

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1393-1399

  Iwelunmor, Juliet ^a   Zungu, Nompumelelo ^b   Airhihenbuwa, Collins O ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AFRICA; STEREOTYPING; WOMEN;

EID: 77954511310     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.168989     Document Type: Article

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