The HIV-poverty thesis RE-examined: Poverty, wealth or inequality as a social determinant of hiv infection in sub-Saharan Africa?

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 459-480

  Fox, Ashley M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84861891368     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932011000745     Document Type: Article

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