'HIV is an enemy of childbearers': The construction of local epidemiology in rural Malawi

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 471-483

  Yeatman, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Beliefs; Children; HIV AIDS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALAWI; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALAWI; MALE; PARTURITION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 79952473417     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2011.552985     Document Type: Article

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