"Women's bodies are shops": Beliefs about transactional ex and implications for understanding gender power and HIV prevention in Tanzania

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-15

  Wamoyi, Joyce ^a,b   Fenwick, Angela ^b   Urassa, Mark ^a   Zaba, Basia ^a,c   Stones, William ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Gender power; HIV; Tanzania; Transactional sex; Young people

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; TANZANIA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TANZANIA; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952574244     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-010-9646-8     Document Type: Article

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