Sex in the city: Privacy-making practices, spatialized intimacies and the environmental risks of men-who-have-sex-with-men in South India

Health and Place

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1090-1097

  Lorway, Robert ^a   Hwang, Sandra D H ^b   Reza Paul, Sushena ^a   Pasha, Akram ^c   Rahman, Syed Hafeez Ur ^c   Moses, Stephen ^a   Blanchard, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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

^c Ashodaya Samithi   (India)

Author keywords

Community based research; HIV prevention; India; Men who have sex with men; Spatial tactics

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SEXUALITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN SOCIETY;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EROTISM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INTIMACY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SEXUAL MINORITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VIOLENCE;

INDIA;

EID: 80052518357     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.05.015     Document Type: Article

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