'Mobile men with money': HIV prevention and the erasure of difference

Global Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 257-270

  Aggleton, Peter ^a   Bell, Stephen A ^a   Kelly Hanku, Angela ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

discourse; HIV; mobile men with money; sexual risk; unhelpful stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MASCULINITY; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MONEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; THREAT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

COMMERCE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; RISK-TAKING; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TRAVEL; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 84897020949     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.889736     Document Type: Article

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