HIV, gender, race, sexual orientation, and sex work: A qualitative study of intersectional stigma experienced by HIV-positive women in Ontario, Canada

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Logie, Carmen H ^a   James, LLana ^b   Tharao, Wangari ^b   Loutfy, Mona R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; BISEXUAL FEMALE; CANADA; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HOMOPHOBIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LESBIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACISM; SEX WORK; SEXISM; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; STIGMA; SUPPORT GROUP; TRANSSEXUALISM; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; CITY; ETHNOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CITIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENDER IDENTITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PREJUDICE; PROSTITUTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455205788     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001124     Document Type: Article

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