Breast or Bottle? HIV-positive women's responses to global health policy on infant feeding in India

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 499-518

  Van Hollen, Cecilia ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFANT; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SELF HELP; VIROLOGY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SELF-HELP GROUPS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 83455176754     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2011.01182.x     Document Type: Article

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