Key to prevent HIV in women: Reduce gender-based violence

The Lancet

Volumn 376, Issue 9734, 2010, Pages 6-7

  Silverman, Jay G ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; NOTE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VULNERABLE POPULATION; BEHAVIOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; SOUTH AFRICA;

FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 77954719367     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60971-3     Document Type: Note

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