Examining targets for HIV Prevention: Intravaginal practices in Urban Lusaka, Zambia

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 121-127

  Alcaide, Maria L ^a   Chisembele, Maureen ^b   Mumbi, Miriam ^b   Malupande, Emeria ^b   Jones, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYGIENE; HYGIENE PRODUCT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; INTRAVAGINAL PRACTICE; MALE; SEXUALITY; ZAMBIA;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COITUS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VAGINAL DOUCHING; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84896795581     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: 15577449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2013.0309     Document Type: Article

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