Piloting a savings-led microfinance intervention with women engaging in sex work in Mongolia: Further innovation for HIV risk reduction

Open Women's Health Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-32

  Tsai, Laura Cordisco ^a   Witte, Susan S ^a   Aira, Toivgoo ^b   Altantsetseg, Batsukh ^b   Riedel, Marion ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Wellspring NGO and Global Health Research Center of Central Asia   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Business development; Financial education; HIV

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MONGOLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION;

EID: 84858979334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18742912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874291201105010026     Document Type: Article

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