Grappling With HIV Transmission Risks: Narratives of Rural Women in Eastern Kenya Living With HIV

Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 442-453

  Kako, Peninnah M ^a   Stevens, Patricia E ^a   Karani, Anna K ^a   Mkandawire Valhmu, Lucy ^a   Banda, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV infection; HIV transmission; Narrative; Risk reduction; Rural Kenyan women

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; NARRATION; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84864929857     PISSN: 10553290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jana.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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