'They were about to take out their guns on us': Accessing rural Afar communities in Ethiopia with HIV-related interventions

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL.3, 2013, Pages

  Both, Rosalijn ^a   Etsub, Eyelachew ^b   Moyer, Eileen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b National Network of Positive Women Ethiopians   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Afar; health interventions; HIV; pastoralists; perceptions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84885431858     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2013.782510     Document Type: Article

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