Sexual communication among married couples in the context of a microbicide clinical trial and acceptability study in Pune, India

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 899-912

  Marlow, Heather M ^a   Tolley, Elizabeth E ^b   Kohli, Rewa ^c   Mehendale, Sanjay ^c  

^a IL   (United States)

^b Behavioural and Biomedical Research   (United States)

^c NATIONAL AIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Couples; HIV AIDS; India; Microbicide; Sexual communication

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAFE SEX; SEXUALITY; SPOUSE;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAFE SEX; SEXUALITY; SPOUSES;

EID: 77957901685     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2010.508843     Document Type: Article

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