'We are mothers first': Localocentric articulation of sex worker identity as a key in HIV/AIDS communication

Women and Health

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 106-123

  Basu, Ambar ^a   Dutta, Mohan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Culture; Health; HIV AIDS; Mothers; Sex work

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOTHER; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ATTITUDE; COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MOTHERS; PREJUDICE; PROSTITUTION; SELF CONCEPT; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 79953894964     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2010.550992     Document Type: Article

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