Promoting critical consciousness and social mobilization in HIV/AIDS programmes: Lessons and curricular tools from a South African intervention

Health Education Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 542-555

  Hatcher, Abigail ^a   De Wet, Jacques ^b   Bonell, Christopher Philip ^c   Strange, Vicki ^d   Phetla, Godfrey ^e   Proynk, Paul M ^f   Kim, Julia C ^g   Morison, Linda ^h   Porter, John D H ^c   Busza, Joanna ^c   Watts, Charlotte ^c   Hargreaves, James R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^g UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONSUMER; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

AWARENESS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79957959101     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: 14653648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyq057     Document Type: Article

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