HIV/AIDS stigma and refusal of HIV testing among pregnant women in rural Kenya: Results from the MAMAS study

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1111-1120

  Turan, Janet M ^a   Bukusi, Elizabeth A ^b   Onono, Maricianah ^b   Holzemer, William L ^c   Miller, Suellen ^a   Cohen, Craig R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV AIDS; Intimate partner violence; Kenya; Pregnancy; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; KENYA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052783455     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-010-9798-5     Document Type: Article

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