Widow inheritance and hiv prevalence in bondo district, kenya: Baseline results from a prospective cohort study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Agot, Kawango E ^a   Stoep, Ann Vander ^b   Tracy, Melissa ^c   Obare, Billy A ^a   Bukusi, Elizabeth A ^d   Ndinya Achola, Jeckoniah O ^e   Moses, Stephen ^f   Weiss, Noel S ^b  

^a IMPACT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELATIVE; RISK FACTOR; RITUAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WIDOW; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 78649506923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014028     Document Type: Article

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