Cultural Expectations and Reproductive Desires: Experiences of South African Women Living With HIV/AIDS (WLHA)

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 263-280

  Sofolahan, Yewande A ^a   Airhihenbuwa, Collins O ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD REARING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD REARING; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MOTHERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84873915276     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2012.721415     Document Type: Article

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