You comfort yourself and believe in yourself": Exploring lived experiences of stigma in hiv-positive kenyan women

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 150-157

  Kako, Peninnah M ^a   Dubrosky, Rebekah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; KENYA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREJUDICE; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84879577493     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01612840.2012.740765     Document Type: Article

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