More than just a cut: A qualitative study of penile practices and their relationship to masculinity, sexuality and contagion and their implications for HIV prevention in Papua New Guinea

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kelly, Angela ^a,b   Kupul, Martha ^a   Nake Trumb, Richard ^a   Aeno, Herick ^a   Neo, James ^a   Fitzgerald, Lisa ^c   Hill, Peter S ^c   Kaldor, John M ^d   Siba, Peter ^a   Vallely, Andrew ^a,d  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contagion; Cultural meaning; HIV; Male circumcision; Masculinity; Papua New Guinea; Penile practices; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCUMCISION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MASCULINITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PENIS GLANS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; SELF REPORT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL CLASS; URETHRA;

EID: 84871229164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-698X-12-10     Document Type: Article

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